Biomedical use of infrared images

Author

Conci, A. ; Borchartt, T.B. ; Resmini, R. ; Motta, L.S. ; Viana, M.J.A. ; Santos, L.C. ; Lima, R.C.F. ; Diniz, E.M. ; Santos, A.M. ; Paiva, A.C. ; Silva, A.C.

Author_Institution

Comput. Inst., Fed. Fluminense Univ., Niterói, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This work describes some recent results on the biomedical use of infrared (IR) images under three aspects. One is the use of thermal imaging for 3D modelling of the human body with special focus on the reproduction of the breast geometry. Such technique could be used for breast reconstruction or choose of external prosthesis to be used for temperature calculations. Secondly, they can be used for identification of the limits of visibility of the internal masses and tumours on the skin surface temperature. The final aspect is on the use for early diagnoses of breast diseases.

Keywords

biological organs; biomedical optical imaging; cancer; gynaecology; image reconstruction; infrared imaging; medical image processing; prosthetics; skin; tumours; 3D modelling; biomedical use; breast diseases; breast geometry; breast reconstruction; early diagnosis; external prosthesis; human body; infrared images; internal masses; skin surface temperature; thermal imaging; tumours; Biomedical imaging; Breast; Computers; Feature extraction; Geometry; Tumors; breast cancer; infrared images; numerical simulation; parametric analysis; thermal medical imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2011 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sarajevo

ISSN

2157-8672

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0074-3

Type

conf

Filename

5977425