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

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

28-30 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

257

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEE.2009.121

Filename

5380349