• 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