Reproducibility of Thermal Images:  Some Healthy Examples

Audrey Macdonald; Nina Petrova; Suhail Ainarkar; Peter Plassmann; Aaron Whittam; John Bevans; Francis  Ring; Ben Kluwe; Rob Simpson; Leon Rogers; Graham Machin; Mike Edmonds; John Allen

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-3147-2_15

Reproducibility of Thermal Images: Some Healthy Examples

Audrey Macdonald, Nina Petrova, Suhail Ainarkar, Peter Plassmann, Aaron Whittam, John Bevans, Francis Ring, Ben Kluwe, Rob Simpson, Leon Rogers, Graham Machin, Mike Edmonds, John Allen

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Abstract

Thirty participants with healthy feet were imaged in the same way on two separate occasions (an average of 4 weeks apart). Overall, feet were found to be thermally symmetric although absolute temperature could vary considerably between visits. Temperature differences at specific sites on the foot sometimes exceeded the threshold of 2.2 °C regarded as clinically significant when looking for evidence of inflammation prior to skin breakdown in diabetes. At least one site exceeded this threshold in nine (30%) participants (the same figure for both visits). However, when looking for significant thermal asymmetry it is important to rule out transient changes by repeated imaging and to refer to baseline images.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Application of Infrared to Biomedical Sciences
Editors	Eddie YK Ng, Mahnaz EtehadTavakol
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	265-276
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-10-3147-2
ISBN (Print)	978-981-10-3146-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3147-2_15
Publication status	Published - 25 Mar 2017

Publication series

Name	Series in BioEngineering
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2196-8861
ISSN (Electronic)	2196-887X

Keywords

Thermal imaging
Thermal symmetry
Diabetic foot ulcer

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Macdonald, A., Petrova, N., Ainarkar, S., Plassmann, P., Whittam, A., Bevans, J., Ring, F., Kluwe, B., Simpson, R., Rogers, L., Machin, G., Edmonds, M., & Allen, J. (2017). Reproducibility of Thermal Images: Some Healthy Examples. In E. YK. Ng, & M. EtehadTavakol (Eds.), Application of Infrared to Biomedical Sciences (pp. 265-276). Article Chapter 15 (Series in BioEngineering). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3147-2_15

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