Title :
Case Based Color Calibration of Wound Images for Monitoring Pressure Sore Healing
Author :
Moghimi, Saba ; Baygi, M. ; Torkaman, G. ; Mahloojifar, Ali
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
In this paper a case based calibration technique is proposed for monitoring and assessment of wound images. For development of the proposed approach digital color images were obtained from pressure sores, induced in guinea pigs. Wound images were calibrated with respect to the hue component of the healthy tissue of each case. Hue polar histograms were used for calibration. Images were reconstructed after calibration based on their new hue values. The calibrated images can be segmented by thresholding the hue values.
Keywords :
biological tissues; image colour analysis; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; case based color calibration; digital color images; guinea pigs; hue polar histograms; pressure sore healing monitoring; pressure sores; wound images; Animals; Calibration; Color; Computerized monitoring; Histograms; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Patient monitoring; Physics computing; Wounds; digital color images; hue component; polar histogram; segmentation; thresholding;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Electrical Engineering, 2009. ICCEE '09. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dubai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5365-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3925-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCEE.2009.121
