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Vein Detection in Hyperspectral Images using a Combination of Dimensionality Reduction Methods and 3D-CNN




AuthorsHenry, Ndu; Kanth, Rajeev; Akbar, Sheikh-Akbari

EditorsN/A

Conference nameIEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques

PublisherIEEE

Publication year2025

Book title 2025 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST)

ISBN979-8-3315-9731-3

eISBN979-8-3315-9730-6

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1109/IST66504.2025.11268355

Publication's open availability at the time of reportingNo Open Access

Publication channel's open availability No Open Access publication channel

Web address https://doi.org/10.1109/ist66504.2025.11268355


Abstract

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) captures detailed spectral and spatial information, making it a versatile tool across various domains. This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)based method for vein detection from hyperspectral images of human hands. The proposed method applies a dimensionality reduction technique to the input HSI to extract its features and reduce its dimensionality. A CNN model is then trained and used to identify the location of vein pixels in the input image. Three dimensionality reduction methods, namely Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Folded-PCA (FPCA), and Inter-band Correlation and Clustering using the K-means clustering method (ICC_k-means), were used to reduce the dimensionality of the input image. A 3D-CNN model is then trained to detect the location of veins’ pixels in the input HSI. A 3D-CNN model was trained on dimensionality reduced HSI data to accurately identify the location of veins’ pixels in the input HSI. Experimental results were generated using the HyperVein dataset. The dataset images were randomly divided into training, validation, and test sets. Experimental results show that the proposed method using the ICC k-means dimensionality reduction technique achieves the highest accuracy, precision, recall, false positive rate, false negative rate, and receiver operating characteristics compared to when PCA and FPCA methods are used.


Funding information in the publication
This research has been funded under a knowledge transfer partnership by Innovate UK (KTP 13808).


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