Non-invasive optical imaging techniques for burn-injured tissue detection for debridement surgery.
Journal:
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
PMID:
28268919
Abstract
Burn debridement is a challenging technique that requires significant skill to identify regions requiring excision and appropriate excision depth. A machine learning tool is being developed in order to assist surgeons by providing a quantitative assessment of burn-injured tissue. Three noninvasive optical imaging techniques capable of distinguishing between four kinds of tissue-healthy skin, viable wound bed, deep burn, and shallow burn-during serial burn debridement in a porcine model are presented in this paper. The combination of all three techniques considerably improves the accuracy of tissue classification, from 0.42 to almost 0.77.