Title :
Thermal conditions of breast cancer progress-treatment
Author :
Roopaei, Mehdi ; Agaian, Sos ; Shadaram, Mehdi ; Akopian, David ; Rios, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract :
Thermography is an imaging technique which is based on the idea that the temperature rises in regions with increased blood flow and metabolism, which could be a sign of a tumor. Recently, it has found promising applications in cancer diagnosis, particularly, in breast cancer exposure. Even though many thermo-medical applications need a good image assessment tool, there were no reports in literature on using a thermal image as a thermal conditioning of breast cancer progress/treatment. In this paper, a novel thermal images assessment tool for detecting the conditions of breast cancer exposure based on thermography is proposed. The presented innovative measure is based on integration of human visual system, intensity and density attributes of observed images. The proposed scheme as thermal conditions of breast cancer has the advantages of: (i) determining cancer risks for prevention by introducing a measuring system for estrogen imbalance, (ii) detecting the progress and treatment by monitoring the conditions as a new measurements and (iii) breast skin temperature measurement. The experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed measuring system on thermal conditions of breast cancer.
Keywords :
cancer; infrared imaging; medical image processing; patient treatment; skin; temperature measurement; tumours; blood flow; breast cancer exposure condition detection; breast cancer progress-treatment; breast skin temperature measurement; cancer diagnosis; cancer risk determination; estrogen imbalance measuring system; human visual system; image density attribute; image intensity attribute; imaging technique; metabolism; thermal conditioning; thermal conditions; thermal image assessment tool; thermography; tumors; Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Skin; Temperature measurement; Breast Cancer; Cancer Effectiveness of Treatment; Cancer Progress; Estrogen Imbalance; Skin tempreture; Thermal Image;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/SMC.2014.6973981