Automated segmentation of regions of interest from thermal images of hands

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 3822-3826

  Gauci, Jean ^a   Falzon, Owen ^a   Camilleri, Kenneth P ^a   Formosa, Cynthia ^a   Gatt, Alfred ^a   Ellul, Christian ^a   Mizzi, Stephen ^a   Mizzi, Anabelle ^a   Cassar, Kevin ^a   Sturgeon, Cassandra ^a   Chockalingam, Nachiappan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 85032197935     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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