Title :
Thermal signatures for breast cancer screening comparative study
Author :
Jakubowska, T. ; Wiecek, B. ; Wysocki, M. ; Drews-Peszynski, C.
Author_Institution :
Laser Diagnosis & Therapy Center, Lodz Univ., Poland
Abstract :
In this paper the usefulness of the first and second order statistical parameter to calculate signatures of thermal images to distinguish healthy breast one with malignant tumor. We use image histogram and co-occurrence matrix to get thermal signatures and analyze symmetry between left and right side. The proposed approach was used in the pilot investigations in the medical centre which is permanently using thermograph) for breast cancer screening and therapy, as an adjacent method for other classical therapy, such as mammography.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; infrared imaging; mammography; medical image processing; breast cancer screening; breast cancer therapy; image histogram; mammography; medical centre; statistical parameter; thermal image; thermal signatures; Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Diseases; Histograms; Image analysis; Image converters; Malignant tumors; Medical treatment; Pathology; Principal component analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279444