Author, as appears in the article.: Mohamed Abdel-Nasser; Adel Saleh; Antonio Moreno; Domenec Puig
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: ABDELNASSER MOHAMED MAHMOUD, MOHAMED; Adel Saleh; MORENO RIBAS, ANTONIO; PUIG VALLS, DOMÈNEC SAVI
Keywords: Thermograms Nipple detection Breast Cancer
Abstract: Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases for women. Detecting breast cancer in its early stage may lead to a reduction in mortality. Although the study of mammographies is the most common method to detect breast cancer, it is outperformed by the analysis of thermographies in dense tissue (breasts of young women). In the last two decades, several computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for the early detection of breast cancer have been proposed. Breast cancer CAD systems consist of many steps, such as segmentation of the region of interest, feature extraction, classification and nipple detection. Indeed, the nipple is an important anatomical landmark in thermograms. The location of the nipple is invaluable in the analysis of medical images because it can be used in several applications, such as image registration and modality fusion. This paper proposes an unsupervised, automatic, accurate, simple and fast method to detect nipples in thermograms. The main stages of the proposed method are: human body segmentation, determination of nipple candidates using adaptive thresholding and detection of the nipples using a novel selection algorithm. Experiments have been carried out on a thermograms dataset to validate the proposed method, achieving accurate nipple detection results in real-time. We also show an application of the proposed method, breast cancer classification in dynamic images, where the new nipple detection technique is used to segment the region of the two breasts from the infrared image. A dataset of dynamic thermograms has been used to validate this application, achieving good results.
Research group: ITAKA: Tecnologies Intel.ligents Avançades per a la Gestió del Coneixement Robòtica i Visió Intel.ligents
Thematic Areas: Computer engineering Ingeniería informática Enginyeria informàtica
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0957-4174
Author identifier: 0000-0002-1074-2441; n/a; n/a; n/a
Record's date: 2016-09-14
Last page: 374
Journal volume: 64
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
First page: 365
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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