A Non-invasive Method for Measuring Blood Flow Rate in Superficial Veins from a Single Thermal Image

Author

Mahmoud, Ali ; El-Barkouky, Ahmed ; Farag, Hany E. ; Graham, James ; Farag, Aly

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-28 June 2013

Firstpage

354

Lastpage

359

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a thermal image based measurement technique for the volumetric flow rate of a liquid inside a thin tube. Our technique makes use of the convection heat transfer dependency between the flow rate and the temperature of the flowing liquid along the tube. The proposed method can be applied to diagnose superficial venous disease non-invasively by measuring the volumetric blood flow rate from a FLIR LWIR single thermal image.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; blood flow measurement; blood vessels; convection; infrared imaging; medical image processing; volume measurement; FLIR LWIR single thermal image; blood flow rate measurement; convection heat transfer dependency; flowing liquid temperature; noninvasive method; superficial veins; superficial venous disease; thermal image based measurement technique; volumetric blood flow rate; volumetric flow rate; Blood; Blood flow; Electron tubes; Heat transfer; Liquids; Veins; Blood Flow Rate; Superficial Veins; Thermal Image;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVPRW.2013.60

Filename

6595899