Superimposition of thermal imaging to visual imaging using homography

S Di Romualdo; A Merla; G L Romani

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353052

Superimposition of thermal imaging to visual imaging using homography

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007:2007:3365-8. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353052.

Authors

S Di Romualdo¹, A Merla, G L Romani

Affiliation

¹ ITAB - Institute of Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Foundation University G. d'Annunzio and Clinical Sciences and Bioimaging Dept, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy. diromualdo@gmail.com

PMID: 18002718
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353052

Abstract

InfraRed Thermal Imaging (IR) permits to non-invasively map the skin temperature distribution of the human body. Combining together thermal and visual imaging enriches the informative content of IR images and provides to the physician an anatomically-based and more friendly visualization--on the thermal images--of the presence of possible pathological processes. In this paper we use a homography technique to overlap a thermal image to a visible one. The technique provides an effective pixel-to-pixel correspondences between the two images or their portions.

Publication types

Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Diagnostic Imaging / methods*
Humans
Image Enhancement / methods
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
Infrared Rays*
Photography / methods*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Subtraction Technique*
Thermography / methods*