Scope
A correct first treatment is essential for a favorable evolution of a burn injury. To develop an appropriate course of treatment, it is necessary to know the depth of the burn: correct visual assessment of burn depth relies highly on specialized dermatological expertise. As the cost of maintaining a burn treatment unit is high, it would be desirable to have an automatic system to give a first assessment at primary health-care centers, where there is a lack of specialist.
The aim of the system is to separate burn wounds from healthy skin, and to distinguish among different types of burns (burn depth). Digital color photographs are used as inputs to the system. To this aim, first of all, a method to normalize colors when photographs have been acquired with different cameras and/or illuminant conditions has been developed. Then, burns are segmented. As physicians determine the depth based on color perception and some texture characteristics, several features that take into account both information have been selected, and a classifier was applied for the final burn depth determination.
Collaborations
Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Gestión de la Investigación en Salud de Sevilla (FISEVI)
Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Rocío
Funding
CAD tool for the first treatment of burn patients (TIC2002-01401)
Publications
Sáez-Manzano, Aurora; Serrano-Gotarredona, Maria Carmen; Acha-Piñero, Begoña.. A review on CAD tools for burn diagnosis. Color Medical Image Analysis, Springer, edited book, to be published.
Prieto, María Felicidad; Acha-Piñero, Begoña; Gómez-Cía, Pedro Tómas; … [et al]. “A System For 3d Representation Of Burns And Calculation Of Burnt Skin Area”. Burns. 2011, vol 37, núm. 11, p. 1233-1240.
Irene Fondón García, Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Manuel Sosa: New Characteristics for the Classification of Burns: Experimental Study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4142. 2006. Pag. 502-512
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Begoña Acha Piñero, Steve J. Sangwine:
Colorimetric Calibration of Images of Human Skin Captured Under Hospital Conditions. Proceedings Book. Aic Colour 20005: Congress of the International Colour Association. Num. 10. Granada, España. Javier Hernández Andrés. 2005. Pag. 773-776
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Begoña Acha Piñero, Pedro Tómas Gómez Cía, Jose Ignacio Acha Catalina, Laura María Roa Romero: A Computer Assisted Diagnosis Tool for the Classification of Burns by Depth of Injury. Burns . Vol. 31. Núm. 3. 2005. Pag. 275-281
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Jose Ignacio Acha Catalina, Laura María Roa Romero: Segmentation and Classification of Burn Images by Color and Texture Information. Journal of Biomedical Optics. Vol. 10. Núm. 3. 2005. Pag. 034014-1-034014-11
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Begoña Acha Piñero, Irene Fondón García:
Novel Multi-Step Region Growing Algorithm for the Segmentation of Burn Images. Proceedings Embec 2005. Embec 2005 (). Praga (Republica Checa). Ifmbe. 2005. Pag. 3911-3914
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Sergio Palencia Boillos, Juan José Murillo Fuentes:
Classification of Burn Wounds Using Support Vector Machines. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging (). San Diego, California (EE.UU.). SPIE- the International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. Pag. 1018-1025
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Jose Ignacio Acha Catalina, Laura María Roa Romero: CAD Tool for Burn Diagnosis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2732. 2003. Pag. 294-305
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Begoña Acha Piñero, Jose Ignacio Acha Catalina:
Segmentation of Burn Images Based on Color and Texture Information. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging (). San Diego, California (EE.UU.). SPIE- the International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. Pag. 1543-1550
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Jose Ignacio Acha Catalina:
Segmentation of Burn Images Using the L*u*v* Space and Classification of Burn Depths by Color and Texture Information. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging (). San Diego, California (EE.UU.). 2002. Pag. 1508-1515
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Laura María Roa Romero:
Segmentation and Classification of Burn Color Images. IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Icbme 2001). Num. 1. Estambul (Turquía). 2001. Pag. 2692-2695
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Begoña Acha Piñero, R.M. Rangayyan, Laura María Roa Romero: Segmentation-Based Lossless Compression of Burn Wound Images. Journal of Electronic Imaging . Vol. 10. Núm. 3. 2001. Pag. 720-726
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Begoña Acha Piñero:
Automatic Classification of Burn Images. Workshop on Biomedical Information Engineering(Isik00). Workshop on Biomedical Information Engineering(Isik00). Num. 1. Estambul (Turquia). 2000. Pag. 251-254
Laura María Roa Romero, Pedro Tómas Gómez Cía, Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona: Digital Imaging in Remote Diagnosis of Burns. Burns . Vol. 25. Núm. 7. 1999. Pag. 617-623
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Daniel Santos Higueras, Begoña Acha Piñero:
Multiresolution Color Segmentation Algorithm With Application to Medical Images. International Conference on Signal and Image Processing. Num. 1. Las Vegas (EEUU). 2000. Pag. 411-415
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, J.M. Alvarez Palma, Laura María Roa Romero:
A System for Training and Computer Aided Diagnosis of Burn Wounds. Proceedings of the European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference Embec Vienna. 1999. Pag. 694-695
Begoña Acha Piñero, Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Laura María Roa Romero, Pedro Tómas Gómez Cía:
Classifier for Emergency Cases in Burns. Fifth Conference of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine. Sixth International Symposium of Seib-Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine. Seventeenth Annual Congress of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica. Esem’99. Barcelona. 1999. Pag. 315-316
Maria Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Laura María Roa Romero, Begoña Acha Piñero:
Evaluation of a Telemedicine Platform in a Burn Unit. IEEE Itab98. IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine. Num. 1. Washington (EEUU). 1998. Pag. 121-126
