Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Patent
1998-02-27
2000-06-27
Chang, Jon
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
382248, 382276, 356346, G06K 900, G06K 936, G01B 902
Patent
active
060816120
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging of skin tissue enables automatic characterization of the condition of a region of interest of the skin, based on direct digital imaging of the region of interest or the digitization of color photographic slides of the region of interest, illuminated by appropriately filtered light. Preferably, a digital image at a low spectral band is automatically segmented and that segmented mask is used to segment the other images by a digital processor. Parameters are estimated through wavelet maxima representations. Parameters related to the texture, asymmetry, blotchiness and border irregularities are also automatically estimated. The region of interest is automatically characterized by the digital processor, based on those parameters. The region of interest may include a skin lesion, in which case the present invention enables the characterization of the lesion as malignant or benign. The region of interest may also include wounds or burns.
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Bogdan Alexandru
Elbaum Marek
Greenebaum Michael
Gutkowicz-Krusin Dina
Jacobs Adam
Chang Jon
Dastouri Mehrdad
Electro Optical Sciences Inc.
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