if you want to segment regions of a certain temperature range, the color (hue) is the relevant feature in your image. You can realize the color segmentation by doing a HSV (hue/saturation/value) transform first, and then do a thresholding with the hue channel, thus segmenting pixels that are in the required hue range.
In addition, some information you can find in this book: Rajendra Acharya U,Y. K. Eddie Ng, Jasjit S. Suri. Image Modeling of the Human Eye. Artech House, 2008.