Detection of cancerous breasts by dynamic area telethermometry

Breast Cancer Classification Using Statistical Features and Fuzzy Classification of Thermograms

“…In other words, given any temperature Ti in the thermogram, i gives the probability that a pixel at distance k away is of temperature Tj. In order to arrive at an indication of asymmetry between the two sides we adopted this concept and derived what we call a cross co-occurrence matrix defined as IYTi j (I(1), I (2))= PRP1 EI(1)T ,P2eI (2)[P2 e I(2)Tj, lP1 -P21 = k], (4) i.e. temperature values from one breast are related to temperatures of the second side.…”

“…Despite earlier, less encouraging studies, which were based on low capability and poorly calibrated equipment infrared imaging has been shown to be well suited for task of detecting breast cancer, in particular when the tumor is in its early stages or in dense tissue [4], [5]. Early detection is important as it provides significantly higher chances of survival [6] and in this respect infrared imaging outperforms the standard method of mammography which can detect tumors only once they exceed a certain size.…”

Extended hidden Markov model for optimized segmentation of breast thermography images

“…Recently, interest in thermography is increased because of the availability of both highly sensitive infrared cameras and advances in image processing techniques [1]. Thermography has been shown to be well suited for the task of detecting breast cancer [2][3][4][5][6], in particular when the tumor is in its early stages or in dense tissue [7,8]. Early detection of breast cancer is important as it significantly provides higher chances of survival [9] and in this respect infrared imaging outperforms the standard method of mammography which can detect tumors only once they exceed a certain size.…”

Thermography based breast cancer analysis using statistical features and fuzzy classification

“…Despite earlier, less encouraging studies, which were based on low-capability and poorly calibrated equipment, infrared imaging has been shown to be well suited for the task of detecting breast cancer, in particular when the tumor is in its early stages or in dense tissue [2,6]. Early detection is important as it provides significantly higher chances of survival [3] and in this respect infrared imaging outperforms the standard method of mammography which can detect tumors only once they exceed a certain size.…”