DocumentCode
1220813
Title
A Computerized Breast Thermographic Interpreter
Author
Negin, Michael ; Ziskin, Marvin C. ; Piner, Charles ; Lapayowker, Marc S.
Author_Institution
Biomedical Engineering and Science Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Drexel University
Issue
4
fYear
1977
fDate
7/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
347
Lastpage
352
Abstract
A computerized breast thermographic interpreter (CBTI) has been developed which outperforms human thermographers on a series of 81 frontal thermograms. The CBTI is composed of feature extraction algorithms followed by linear discriminant classifiers.
Keywords
Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Cancer detection; Humans; Image analysis; Microcomputers; Radiology; Skin; Temperature; Breast Neoplasms; Computers; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Female; Humans; Thermography;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9294
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TBME.1977.326141
Filename
4122703
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