Cross-correlation based movement correction method for biomedical dynamic infrared imaging

During dynamic infrared imaging there is a need of temperature measurement along time at a point or area. The paper shows the recent studies using dynamic infrared imaging in medicine and problems of proper data extraction which is the result of an object movement. The method of movement correction based on cross correlation calculated for dynamic thermal imaging is presented. The influence of movement correction on extracted data and point tracking precision is shown. The proposed method has been successfully applied for cold stress diagnosis during breast cancer screening.

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