Title
Detection of diabetic foot hyperthermia by using a regionalization method, based on the plantar angiosomes, on infrared images
Date Issued
13 October 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Prevention of serious diabetic foot complication like ulceration or infection is an important issue. As the development of thermal graphic technologies, foot temperature-guided avoidance therapy has been recommended. Doctors from Hospital National Dos de Mayo are studying on the risk of the diabetic foot passing from Grade 0 to Grade 1 in the Wagner Scale. This risk to develop ulcers is related to the temperature difference of corresponding area between left and right foot. Generally speaking, the diabetic foot with greater mean temperature difference has more potential to develop ulcers; especially, area whose temperature difference of more than 2.2°C is where doctors and patients must pay much attention to potential problems like ulceration or infection. A system in Visual Studio was developed taking the thermal images as input and producing image with absolute mean temperature difference of 7different regions or four plantar angiosomes as output. The program process contained essential medical image processing issues such as segmentation, location and regionalization, in which adapted algorithms were implemented. From a database of 85 patients provided only 60 were used due to the quality of acquisition.
Start page
1389
End page
1392
Volume
2016-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Endocrinología, Metabolismo (incluyendo diabetes, hormonas)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85009106968
PubMed ID
ISSN of the container
1557170X
ISBN of the container
9781457702204
Conference
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
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