ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017
Supportive Noninvasive Tool for the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Using a Thermographic Camera as Sensor.
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- Thermal Imaging - An Emerging Modality for Breast Cancer Detection: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of medical systems · 2020Pooled it
- The Non-Invasive Diagnostic Modality for the Detection of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by an Infrared Sensor.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Why Do Radiologists Disown Breast Thermography? A Critical Review of Recent Studies and Recommendations.Cancers · 2025Review
- A Lightweight Method for Breast Cancer Detection Using Thermography Images with Optimized CNN Feature and Efficient Classification.Journal of imaging informatics in medicine · 2025Article
- Advances in breast cancer diagnosis: a comprehensive review of imaging, biosensors, and emerging wearable technologies.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
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- A prospective evaluation of breast thermography enhanced by a novel machine learning technique for screening breast abnormalities in a general population of women presenting to a secondary care hospital.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2022Article
- Feasibility for Using Thermography Throughout an Exercise Program in Mastectomized Patients.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Highly Discriminative Physiological Parameters for Thermal Pattern Classification.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A New Methodology Based on EMD and Nonlinear Measurements for Sudden Cardiac Death Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Risk of breast cancer based on thermal tomography characteristics.Translational cancer research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Breast cancer is the leading disease in incidence and mortality among women in developing countries. The opportune diagnosis of this disease strengthens the survival index. Mammography application is limited by age and periodicity. Temperature is a physical magnitude that can be measured by using multiple sensing techniques. IR (infrared) thermography using commercial cameras is gaining relevance in industrial and medical applications because it is a non-invasive and non-intrusive technology. Asymmetrical temperature in certain human body zones is associated with cancer. In this paper, an IR thermographic sensor is applied for breast cancer detection. This work includes an automatic breast segmentation methodology, to spot the hottest regions in thermograms using the morphological watershed operator to help the experts locate the tumor. A protocol for thermogram acquisition considering the required time to achieve a thermal stabilization is also proposed. Breast thermograms are evaluated as thermal matrices, instead of gray scale or false color images, increasing the certainty of the provided diagnosis. The proposed tool was validated using the Database for Mastology Research and tested in a voluntary group of 454 women of different ages and cancer stages with good results, leading to the possibility of being used as a supportive tool to detect breast cancer and angiogenesis cases.
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