Thermography based breast cancer analysis using statistical features and fuzzy classification

Gerald Schaefer*, Michal Závišek, Tomoharu Nakashima

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    Abstract

    Medical thermography has proved to be useful in various medical applications including the detection of breast cancer where it is able to identify the local temperature increase caused by the high metabolic activity of cancer cells. It has been shown to be particularly well suited for picking up tumours in their early stages or tumours in dense tissue and outperforms other modalities such as mammography for these cases. In this paper we perform breast cancer analysis based on thermography, using a series of statistical features extracted from the thermograms quantifying the bilateral differences between left and right breast areas, coupled with a fuzzy rule-based classification system for diagnosis. Experimental results on a large dataset of nearly 150 cases confirm the efficacy of our approach that provides a classification accuracy of about 80%.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1133-1137
    Number of pages5
    JournalPattern Recognition
    Volume42
    Issue number6
    Early online date14 Aug 2008
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2009

    Keywords

    • breast cancer
    • cancer diagnosis
    • image analysis
    • medical thermography
    • pattern classification

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