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Seminar – III, Fall 2011
Advanced Electronic Technology Center
Enhancement of Infra-Red Images of Human Hand
Anup Pillai
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Medical imaging is defined as a technique which is used to create images of
various parts of the human body for clinical purposes. It is more related to
producing images that carry information about the internal human body parts.
Being a very diverse field, it incorporates different fields like radiology,
radiological sciences, endoscopy, medical thermography and microscopy. It is very
closely related to various image processing techniques. This is because the images
or the signal obtained from the detector always needs to be reconstructed or
processed in order to portray all the necessary information in the final image which
is used for a diagnosis.
Different types of medical imaging techniques exists
which are classified on the basis of the wavelength of the radiation used, the mode
of operation (transmission or reflection) and the reproduction of the acquired
information in the form of images. Engineers involved in biomedical imaging
discover with great deal of surprise that human hand is one of the most
complicated mechanical –biological objects. The complexity of various bones and
tendons, joints and muscles, various soft tissues and network of blood vessels
presents a significant challenge to any technique of visualization. The solutions to
complexity of the near-infrared images of a hand are in elimination, colorizing,
contrast enhancement. In this study, we report these image processing results on
Near Infrared Images of the hand.
Date: Friday, October 21st, 2011 Time: 3:30pm; ECE Conference Room