Nowadays, the medical infrared thermal imaging (MITI) techniques can provide good quality images in real-time for monitoring and pre-clinical diagnostic of the diseases caused by inflammatory processes by showing the thermal abnormalities present in the body. MITI allows specify of the functional changes in the normal temperature distribution on the surface of the body, as well as enables refinement the localization of functional changes, the activity of the process, its prevalence and the nature of the changes – inflammation, stagnation, malignancy, etc. Due to its non-contact, non-invasive and non-destructive way of using, this technology has a distinct advantage among other diagnostic methods. Therefore, the main objectives of this research work were automated steps of feature extraction and analysis MTIs, i.e. to develop novel algorithm for quantitative interpretation of thermal images database, to improve the experimental protocol of obtaining thermal images and to perform an extensive field measurement in the selected cohort of patients, in our case, with spinal diseases, in order to provide an immediate high-quality solutions in real time clinical validation of the proposed method.
Multistage integration of visual information in the brain allows people to respond quickly to most significant stimuli while preserving the ability to recognize small details in the image. Implementation of this principle in technical systems can lead to more efficient processing procedures. The multistage approach to image processing, described in this paper, comprises main types of cortical multistage convergence. One of these types occurs within each visual pathway and the other between the pathways. This approach maps input images into a flexible hierarchy which reflects the complexity of the image data. The procedures of temporal image decomposition and hierarchy formation are described in mathematical terms. The multistage system highlights spatial regularities, which are passed through a number of transformational levels to generate a coded representation of the image which encapsulates, in a computer manner, structure on different hierarchical levels in the image. At each processing stage a single output result is computed to allow a very quick response from the system. The result is represented as an activity pattern, which can be compared with previously computed patterns on the basis of the closest match.
The paper reviews the tomograms of the retina by using coherent optical topographic scanner
STRATUS OCT 3000. There had been researched the efficiency of processing the biomedical images of this
class by using the standard procedure in tomography. There had been developed a new approach to determining
the macular area of the retina in the received tomograms by using the developed program.
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