Application of Infrared to Biomedical Sciences

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Potential of Infrared Imaging in Assessing Digestive Disorders....Pages 1-18
Potential of Thermography in Pain Diagnosing and Treatment Monitoring....Pages 19-32
Assessment of Foot Complications in Diabetic Patients Using Thermography: A Review....Pages 33-43
An Overview of Medical Infrared Imaging in Breast Abnormalities Detection....Pages 45-57
Registration of Contralateral Breasts Thermograms by Shape Context Technique....Pages 59-67
Color Segmentation of Breast Thermograms: A Comparative Study....Pages 69-77
Potentialities of Dynamic Breast Thermography....Pages 79-107
In Vivo Thermography-Based Image for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using Two-Tier Segmentation Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network....Pages 109-131
Detection of Breast Abnormality Using Rotational Thermography....Pages 133-158
Application of Infrared Images to Diagnosis and Modeling of Breast....Pages 159-173
A Semi-Analytical Heterogeneous Model for Thermal Analysis of Cancerous Breasts....Pages 175-190
Dynamic Angiothermography (DATG)....Pages 191-216
Infrared Thermography for Detection of Diabetic Neuropathy and Vascular Disorder....Pages 217-247
Exploratory Thermal Imaging Assessments of the Feet in Patients with Lower Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease....Pages 249-263
Reproducibility of Thermal Images: Some Healthy Examples....Pages 265-276
Thermal Imaging for Increasing the Diagnostic Accuracy in Fetal Hypoxia: Concept and Practice Suggestions....Pages 277-289
Active Dynamic Thermography in Medical Diagnostics....Pages 291-310
Evaluation of Respiration Rate Using Thermal Imaging in Mobile Conditions....Pages 311-346
Applications of Infrared Thermography for Noncontact and Noninvasive Mass Screening of Febrile International Travelers at Airport Quarantine Stations....Pages 347-358
Evaluation of Evaporative Dry Eye Disease Using Thermal Images of Ocular Surface Regions with DWT and Gabor Transform....Pages 359-375
Infrared Thermal Mapping, Analysis and Interpretation in Biomedicine....Pages 377-394
Medical Thermal Tomography—Different Approaches....Pages 395-416
Vapotranspiration in Biological System by Thermal Imaging....Pages 417-428
Change in Local Temperature of Venous Blood and Venous Vessel Walls as a Basis for Imaging Superficial Veins During Infrared Phlebography Using Temperature-Induced Tissue Contrasting....Pages 429-436
Intraoperative Thermal and Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging Assessment of Bowel Perfusion in Two Cases of Colorectal Resection Surgery....Pages 437-449
An Approach for Thyroid Nodule Analysis Using Thermographic Images....Pages 451-475
Modeling Thermal Infrared Imaging Data for Differential Diagnosis....Pages 477-515
3D Dynamic Thermography System for Biomedical Applications....Pages 517-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-552