Lower extremity ulcer image segmentation of visual and near-infrared imagery

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 190-197

  Bochko, Vladimir ^a   Välisuo, Petri ^a   Harju, Toni ^a   Alander, Jarmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Digital camera; Image segmentation; Lower extremity ulcer; Ulcer healing; Visual and near infrared image processing

Indexed keywords

AREA MEASUREMENT; COLOR INFORMATION; DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGES; ERROR VALUES; FREE WILL; IMAGING DEVICE; LONG TERM CARE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAXIMUM ERROR; NEAR INFRARED; SEGMENTATION SYSTEM; SKIN SURFACES; SPECTRAL IMAGES; SUPPORT VECTOR CLASSIFIERS; SURFACE AREA; ULCER HEALING;

CAMERAS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; TISSUE; VIDEO CAMERAS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG ULCER; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NECROSIS; ULCER HEALING;

AGED; DERMOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; LEG ULCER; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NECROSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77954436960     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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