Color enhancement in multispectral image of human skin

Masanori Mitsui; Yuri Murakami; Takashi Obi; Masahiro Yamaguchi; Nagaaki Ohyama

doi:10.1117/12.477944

2 July 2003 Color enhancement in multispectral image of human skin

Masanori Mitsui, Yuri Murakami, Takashi Obi, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Nagaaki Ohyama

Proceedings Volume 4959, Spectral Imaging: Instrumentation, Applications, and Analysis II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477944
Event: Biomedical Optics, 2003, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Multispectral imaging is receiving attention in medical color imaging, as high-fidelity color information can be acquired by the multispectral image capturing. On the other hand, as color enhancement in medical color image is effective for distinguishing lesion from normal part, we apply a new technique for color enhancement using multispectral image to enhance the features contained in a certain spectral band, without changing the average color distribution of original image. In this method, to keep the average color distribution, KL transform is applied to spectral data, and only high-order KL coefficients are amplified in the enhancement. Multispectral images of human skin of bruised arm are captured by 16-band multispectral camera, and the proposed color enhancement is applied. The resultant images are compared with the color images reproduced assuming CIE D65 illuminant (obtained by natural color reproduction technique). As a result, the proposed technique successfully visualizes unclear bruised lesions, which are almost invisible in natural color images. The proposed technique will provide support tool for the diagnosis in dermatology, visual examination in internal medicine, nursing care for preventing bedsore, and so on.

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Masanori Mitsui, Yuri Murakami, Takashi Obi, Masahiro Yamaguchi, and Nagaaki Ohyama "Color enhancement in multispectral image of human skin", Proc. SPIE 4959, Spectral Imaging: Instrumentation, Applications, and Analysis II, (2 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.477944

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Image enhancement

Multispectral imaging

Skin

Visualization

Medical imaging

Color reproduction

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