Automated Region Extraction from Thermal Images for Peripheral Vascular Disease Monitoring

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Volumn 2018, Issue , 2018, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA MINING; EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; INTER-RATER RELIABILITIES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE EXTRACTION; TOTAL COMPUTATION TIME;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; THERMAL IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HAND; LEG; PROCEDURES; THERMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEG; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85059822449     PISSN: 20402295     EISSN: 20402309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2018/5092064     Document Type: Article

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