Segmentation and Classification of Burn Color Images

Abstract

The aim of the algorithm described in this paper is to separate burned skin from normal skin in burn color images and to classify them according to the depth of the burn. The segmentation procedure consists of an elaborated treatment of color representation, followed by a grayscale segmentation algorithm based on the stack mathematical approach. The proposed algorithm has been developed to be applied to skin wound images, but it works properly as a general segmentation approach. In the classification part, we take advantage of color information by clustering, with a vector quantization algorithm, the color centroids of small squares, taken from the burnt segmented part of the image, in the (V1, V2) plane into two possible groups, where V1 and V2 are the two chrominance components of the CIE Lab representation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA409879

Entities

People

  • Begonya Acha
  • Carmen Serrano
  • Laura Roa

Organizations

  • University of Seville

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Burns
  • Classification
  • Computer Vision
  • Computer-Aided Diagnosis
  • Digital Images
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Images
  • Intensity
  • Photographs
  • Physicians
  • Segmented
  • Visual Inspection

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