Development of a database for medical infrared imaging

The object of the report is to describe concepts and methodologies for developing a database of medical infrared thermography. Infrared thermography is a typical noninvasive imaging modality to express thermal homeostatic functions of a body which include skin blood flow distribution and autonomic nerve functions. However, physiological functions such as skin surface temperature are easily and rapidly modified many in- and extrinsic factors. If there are no standards or guidelines to handling the thermographs, a clinician sometimes misreads pathophysiological meanings of his patient from infrared images. This is a system to supply standard techniques of handling infrared imaging modalities and to draw up guidelines for diagnosing some pathophysiological status using thermographic images through the Internet system.