Advances in Telemedicine: A Multimedia-Based Texture Recognition Diagnostic System

Business and Health Administration Association (BHAA) Conference held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 2009

11 Pages Posted: 30 Jan 2013

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Avinandan Mukherjee

Clayton State University - University System of Georgia; Montclair State University - School of Business; Rutgers Business School

Ranjan Parekh

Jadavpur University

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose a multimedia based texture recognition diagnostic system that has tremendous applications in telemedicine. The challenges of medical diagnostic errors get compounded in telemedicine. On the other hand, telemedicine offers opportunities with regard to exploiting vast databases of medical images and their retrieval. We design a multimedia system based on Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) for automatically recognizing skin texture. Three dermatological conditions – acne, ichthyosis, and keratosis – are tested using this system. The results show that the GLCM technique is able to diagnose between the three disease conditions based on the skin texture images with an accuracy of 80%. Applications in the telemedicine context are discussed.

Keywords: Healthcare, Telemedicine, Diagnostic system, Multimedia

Suggested Citation

Mukherjee, Avinandan and Parekh, Ranjan, Advances in Telemedicine: A Multimedia-Based Texture Recognition Diagnostic System (2009). Business and Health Administration Association (BHAA) Conference held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2209478 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2209478

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