Non-invasive optical imaging techniques for burn-injured tissue detection for debridement surgery

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug:2016:2893-2896. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591334.

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.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Burns / diagnostic imaging*
  • Burns / surgery
  • Debridement / methods*
  • Dermatologic Surgical Procedures
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Optical Imaging / methods*
  • Skin / diagnostic imaging*
  • Surgery, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Swine