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Title: Registration of dynamic thermography data of the abdomen of pregnant and non-pregnant women
Authors: Ciantar, Annelie
Falzon, Owen
Sammut, Lara
Schembri, Martina
Muscat Baron, Yves
Calleja-Agius, Jean
Demicoli, Pierre
Camilleri, Kenneth P.
Keywords: Medical thermography
Body temperature -- Measurement
Pregnant women
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation: Ciantar, A., Falzon, O., Sammut, L., Schembri, M., Baron, Y. M., Calleja-Agius, J., ... & Camilleri, K. P. (2018, July). Registration of dynamic thermography data of the abdomen of pregnant and non-pregnant women. In 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 5668-5671). IEEE.
Abstract: To date the use of thermography in the context of obstetrics has been primarily limited to the acquisition and analysis of static thermal images. In contrast, dynamic thermography involves the acquisition of a sequence of thermal images, taking into account temporal variations that would otherise be overlooked. However, dynamic recordings of regions of interest in human participants are likely to be affected by unavoidable participant movement due to breathing and other involuntary movements. In this work, a triangulation-based video registration technique using local affine transformations is proposed to register the abdominal region in dynamic thermal sequences. The proposed method is tested on one hour recordings of thermal data obtained from 10 pregnant and 10 non-pregnant female participants. The results obtained show that the proposed approach can compensate for movements and significantly improve region alignment throughout the thermal image sequence, thereby facilitating subsequent analysis of spatiotemporal temperature data in the considered image sequence.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/58720
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