Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis using light: correction of motion artefacts and color visualization of multispectral images.
State-of-the-art image-processing methods offer new possibilities for diagnosing diseases using scattered light. The optical diagnosis of rheumatism is taken as an example to show that the diagnostic sensitivity can be improved using overlapped pseudocolored images of different wavelengths, provided that multispectral images are recorded to compensate for any motion-related artefacts that occur during examination.
Minet
Olaf
O
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, AG Medical Physics & Optical Diagnosis, Fabeckstr. 60-62, 14195 Berlin, Germany. olaf.minet@charite.de
Scheibe
Patrick
P
Zabarylo
Urszula J
UJ
D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016477:Artifacts; D003116:Color; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007834:Lasers; D008027:Light; D009038:Motion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014172:Transillumination