Breast thermography from an image processing viewpoint: A survey

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women. This fact justifies researches to reach early diagnosis, improving patients’ life expectancy. Moreover, there are other pathologies, such as cysts and benign neoplasms that deserve investigation. In the last ten years, the infrared thermograph...

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Published inSignal processing Vol. 93; no. 10; pp. 2785 - 2803
Main Authors Borchartt, Tiago B., Conci, Aura, Lima, Rita C.F., Resmini, Roger, Sanchez, Angel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.10.2013
Subjects
Breast
Breast cancer detection
Computer aided detection/diagnosis (CAD)
Computer vision
Cysts
Diagnosis
Diseases
Feature extraction
Infrared thermal imaging
Pathology
Pattern recognition
Segmentation
Thermography
Breast cancer detection
Computer vision
Computer aided detection/diagnosis (CAD)
Pattern recognition
Thermography
Infrared thermal imaging
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ISSN0165-1684
1872-7557
DOI10.1016/j.sigpro.2012.08.012

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Abstract Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women. This fact justifies researches to reach early diagnosis, improving patients’ life expectancy. Moreover, there are other pathologies, such as cysts and benign neoplasms that deserve investigation. In the last ten years, the infrared thermography has shown to be a promising technique to early diagnosis of breast pathologies. Works on this subject presented results that justify the thermography as a complementary exam to detect breast diseases. Several papers on the use of infrared imaging for breast screening can be found in the current medical literature. This survey explores and analyses these works in the light of their applications in computer vision. Consequently, the comments are organized according to the main steps of pattern recognition systems. These include: image acquisition protocols, exams storage, segmentation methods, feature extraction, classification or diagnostic and computer modelling. Main contributions of discussed papers are summarized in tables to provide a structured vision of the aspects involved in breast thermography. ► More than one hundred works are reviewed. ► We discuss several protocols of acquisition and storage techniques of exams. ► We comments about ROI segmentation and features extraction. ► The techniques about decision of diagnosis are presented. ► Some numerical modelling papers are discussed.
AbstractList Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women. This fact justifies researches to reach early diagnosis, improving patientsa life expectancy. Moreover, there are other pathologies, such as cysts and benign neoplasms that deserve investigation. In the last ten years, the infrared thermography has shown to be a promising technique to early diagnosis of breast pathologies. Works on this subject presented results that justify the thermography as a complementary exam to detect breast diseases. Several papers on the use of infrared imaging for breast screening can be found in the current medical literature. This survey explores and analyses these works in the light of their applications in computer vision. Consequently, the comments are organized according to the main steps of pattern recognition systems. These include: image acquisition protocols, exams storage, segmentation methods, feature extraction, classification or diagnostic and computer modelling. Main contributions of discussed papers are summarized in tables to provide a structured vision of the aspects involved in breast thermography.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women. This fact justifies researches to reach early diagnosis, improving patients’ life expectancy. Moreover, there are other pathologies, such as cysts and benign neoplasms that deserve investigation. In the last ten years, the infrared thermography has shown to be a promising technique to early diagnosis of breast pathologies. Works on this subject presented results that justify the thermography as a complementary exam to detect breast diseases. Several papers on the use of infrared imaging for breast screening can be found in the current medical literature. This survey explores and analyses these works in the light of their applications in computer vision. Consequently, the comments are organized according to the main steps of pattern recognition systems. These include: image acquisition protocols, exams storage, segmentation methods, feature extraction, classification or diagnostic and computer modelling. Main contributions of discussed papers are summarized in tables to provide a structured vision of the aspects involved in breast thermography. ► More than one hundred works are reviewed. ► We discuss several protocols of acquisition and storage techniques of exams. ► We comments about ROI segmentation and features extraction. ► The techniques about decision of diagnosis are presented. ► Some numerical modelling papers are discussed.
Author Lima, Rita C.F.
Borchartt, Tiago B.
Conci, Aura
Resmini, Roger
Sanchez, Angel
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Computer vision
Cysts
Diagnosis
Diseases
Feature extraction
Infrared thermal imaging
Pathology
Pattern recognition
Segmentation
Thermography
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