Artificial Intelligence-based Infrared Thermal Image Processing and its Applications
暫譯: 基於人工智慧的紅外熱像處理及其應用

本書提供了基於熱成像技術設計和開發計算機輔助診斷（CAD）系統的描述，該系統用於診斷一些常見疾病，如關節炎、糖尿病和發燒。書中介紹了機器學習和深度學習方法，以及卷積神經網絡在CAD系統開發中的應用。

Dr. U. Snekhalatha is currently working as an Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Kattankulathur, India. She pursued her Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at SRMIST (2015). Her areas of interest include biomedical signal processing, medical image processing, biomedical instrumentation, and machine learning and deep learning techniques. She has published 88 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences. She has filed four Indian patents of which, all are in published stage. She obtained the Best Researcher Award for her publications in Nature indexed journal during the Research Day function held on March 1, 2021 at SRMIST. She received Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award for paper titled "Design of Acetone Breath Gas Analyzer in the Evaluation of Diabetes Mellitus," Appreciation 2020, Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, November 5, 2020. She has obtained best paper award and gold medals for some research paper publications. She is a life member of various professional societies such as the Biomedical Society of India, IEI, IEANG, IRED, ISTE, and ISCA. She is currently serving as a reviewer and guest editor for various reputed peer-reviewed international journals.

Dr. K. Palani Thanaraj is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Chennai. He has completed his PhD in 2018 in the Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai. His research areas include image processing, advanced signal processing, image segmentation, machine learning, and deep learning. He has developed deep learning algorithms for performing image classification of medical images for disease diagnosis. He has published his works in many reputed and refereed journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.

Prof Dr. med. Kurt Ammer was certified as a general medical practitioner in 1978, a consultant for physical medicine and rehabilitation in 1989, and a consultant for physical medicine and rehabilitation (rheumatology) in 1994. He was senior researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Research Unit for Physical Diagnostics, Austria, between 1988 and 2004. From 1985 until his retirement in early 2013, he was Vice Director of the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Hanusch Hospital in Vienna, Austria. He got involved in medical thermography in 1988, and was appointed as secretary and treasurer of the European Association of Thermology (EAT) in 1990, and currently serves as the EAT treasurer. Since 2002, he has been appointed as external professor at the Medical Imaging Research Unit, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK. His research interests focus on rehabilitation medicine and the application and standardization of thermal imaging in medicine.

U. Snekhalatha 博士目前擔任印度 SRM 科技學院 (SRMIST) 生物醫學工程系的教授。她於 2015 年在 SRMIST 獲得生物醫學工程博士學位。她的研究興趣包括生物醫學信號處理、醫學影像處理、生物醫學儀器以及機器學習和深度學習技術。她在知名的國際期刊和國際會議上發表了 88 篇研究文章。她已申請四項印度專利，所有專利均已公開。她在 2021 年 3 月 1 日於 SRMIST 舉行的研究日活動中獲得了 Nature 索引期刊的最佳研究者獎。她因發表題為「在糖尿病評估中設計丙酮呼氣氣體分析儀」的論文而獲得甘地青年技術創新獎，該獎項由可持續技術與機構研究與倡議協會頒發，日期為 2020 年 11 月 5 日。她在一些研究論文的發表中獲得最佳論文獎和金獎。她是多個專業學會的終身會員，如印度生物醫學學會、IEI、IEANG、IRED、ISTE 和 ISCA。她目前擔任多個知名的同行評審國際期刊的審稿人和客座編輯。

K. Palani Thanaraj 博士目前擔任印度金奈聖約瑟夫工程學院電子與儀器工程系的助理教授。他於 2018 年在金奈安娜大學信息與通信工程學院獲得博士學位。他的研究領域包括影像處理、先進信號處理、影像分割、機器學習和深度學習。他開發了深度學習算法，用於對醫學影像進行分類以進行疾病診斷。他的研究成果已發表在許多知名的、經過審核的期刊上，並被 Web of Science 和 Scopus 索引。

Kurt Ammer 醫學教授於 1978 年獲得一般醫學執業醫師資格，1989 年成為物理醫學與康復的顧問，1994 年成為物理醫學與康復（風濕病學）的顧問。他於 1988 年至 2004 年期間擔任奧地利路德維希·波爾茨曼物理診斷研究單位的高級研究員。從 1985 年到 2013 年初退休，他擔任奧地利維也納哈努什醫院物理醫學與康復研究所的副所長。他於 1988 年開始參與醫學熱成像，並於 1990 年被任命為歐洲熱療學會 (EAT) 的秘書和財務主管，目前擔任 EAT 的財務主管。自 2002 年以來，他被任命為英國南威爾士大學 Pontypridd 醫學影像研究單位的外部教授。他的研究興趣集中在康復醫學以及熱成像在醫學中的應用和標準化。