Estimation of an optimal spectral band combination to evaluate skin disease treatment efficacy using multi-spectral images

Abstract

. Estimation of an optimal spectral band combination to evaluate skin disease treatment efficacy using multi-spectral images. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Sep 2011, Brussels, Belgium. 2011 First, the degree of the disease is measured clinically on a group of patients by dermatologists. Then, a statistical test is used on obtained set of measures to determine the treatment efficacy. In this paper, a method is proposed to automatically measure the severity of skin hyperpigmentation. After a classification step, an objective function is designed in order to obtain an optimal linear combination of bands defining the severity criterion. Then a hypothesis test is deployed on this combination to quantify treatment efficacy.