Title :
A Computerized Breast Thermographic Interpreter
Author :
Negin, Michael ; Ziskin, Marvin C. ; Piner, Charles ; Lapayowker, Marc S.
Author_Institution :
Biomedical Engineering and Science Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Drexel University
fDate :
7/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A computerized breast thermographic interpreter (CBTI) has been developed which outperforms human thermographers on a series of 81 frontal thermograms. The CBTI is composed of feature extraction algorithms followed by linear discriminant classifiers.
Keywords :
Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Cancer detection; Humans; Image analysis; Microcomputers; Radiology; Skin; Temperature; Breast Neoplasms; Computers; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Female; Humans; Thermography;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1977.326141
