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| author | Asare-Baiden, Miriam Jordan, Kathleen Chung, Andrew Sonenblum, Sharon Eve Ho, Joyce C. |
| author_facet | Asare-Baiden, Miriam Jordan, Kathleen Chung, Andrew Sonenblum, Sharon Eve Ho, Joyce C. |
| contents | Pressure injury (PI) detection is challenging, especially in dark skin tones, due to the unreliability of visual inspection. Thermography has been suggested as a viable alternative as temperature differences in the skin can indicate impending tissue damage. Although deep learning models have demonstrated considerable promise toward reliably detecting PI, the existing work fails to evaluate the performance on darker skin tones and varying data collection protocols. In this paper, we introduce a new thermal and optical imaging dataset of 35 participants focused on darker skin tones where temperature differences are induced through cooling and cupping protocols. We vary the image collection process to include different cameras, lighting, patient pose, and camera distance. We compare the performance of a small convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on either the thermal or the optical images on all skin tones. Our preliminary results suggest that thermography-based CNN is robust to data collection protocols for all skin tones. |
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| spellingShingle | Is thermography a viable solution for detecting pressure injuries in dark skin patients? Asare-Baiden, Miriam Jordan, Kathleen Chung, Andrew Sonenblum, Sharon Eve Ho, Joyce C. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Pressure injury (PI) detection is challenging, especially in dark skin tones, due to the unreliability of visual inspection. Thermography has been suggested as a viable alternative as temperature differences in the skin can indicate impending tissue damage. Although deep learning models have demonstrated considerable promise toward reliably detecting PI, the existing work fails to evaluate the performance on darker skin tones and varying data collection protocols. In this paper, we introduce a new thermal and optical imaging dataset of 35 participants focused on darker skin tones where temperature differences are induced through cooling and cupping protocols. We vary the image collection process to include different cameras, lighting, patient pose, and camera distance. We compare the performance of a small convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on either the thermal or the optical images on all skin tones. Our preliminary results suggest that thermography-based CNN is robust to data collection protocols for all skin tones. |
| title | Is thermography a viable solution for detecting pressure injuries in dark skin patients? |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10627 |