Real-time Multispectral Image Processing for Medical Imaging

摘要

In Japan, information technologies are expected to support elder people to improve their quality of life by providing medical information and managing their health information. Sensing the health information will be a key technology to achieve welfare society for elder people. In this paper, the real-time spectral imaging technique is infroduced for monitoring pigmentations of human skin by inverse optical scattering method. The maps of melanin, oxy-hemoglobin and deoxy-hemolobin densities in skin are converted from RGB image using three pre-computed color conversion look up tables. This system is applied to observe the changes in pigmentation during anaerobic exercise and occlusion. The human homeostasis by disturbance is observed in real-time with the developed system.