Segmentation of the Veins of the Dorsum of the Hand in Infrared Images

Abstract

One of the great problems of computing is preserving the security, condentiality, and integrity of the information. Biometric systems consist of identifying some physiological trait of an individual, focusing on information security aspects where the objective is the identication and authentication of individuals to give them access to certain information. The rst stage of a biometric system consists of the segmentation of the area to be identied, which is why this work shows a methodology that allows obtaining the segmentation of the vascular network of the back of the hand in infrared images, furthermore, the methodology allows to determine the skeleton of the vascular network.