2018 IEEE Malaysia Final Year Project Competition

FYP Title: Automated Color Feature Extraction for Wound Tissues

Classification

Abstract

Wound tissues classification is important for the doctors and clinicians to classify the
tissues of the patients wound. The ability to classify the wound tissues automatically
will be a great support to doctors and clinicians to prevent inaccuracy of wound
measurement as the current method is using the traditional method which is using
ruler and measuring tape. There were an algorithms used by previous researcher but
they cannot obtain the perfect accuracy. This project attempted to use image
processing technique to classify the features of wound tissues image by using color. A
total of 421 images comprising from 50 images from each 4 tissues which are slough,
granular, epithelial and necrotic were used for developing algorithm and accuracy
prediction. The wound image being segmented using threshold segmentation and the
mean, standard deviation and variance were extracted from the image. Analysis of
classifying the tissues in the wound using SVM algorithm classifier and the accuracy
of classifying being assessed. The SVM classifier algorithms shows that of 87.5%,
35.15% , 81.82% and 39.19% for wound classification of slough, granular, necrotic
and epithelial tissues. Hence, the classification of wound tissues that being proposed
can be used to make decision on the wound tissues. In future, the classification of
wound tissues can be done in real time image processing that can have a device that
can snap the real time image and classify it at that moment.

Keywords: image processing, wound

Name of Student: NoorHana Laili binti Abdul Basari