DocumentCode :
3565516
Title :
Color morphology and segmentation of the breast thermography image
Author :
Lanisa, Norlailah ; Ng Siew Cheok ; Lai Khin Wee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
fYear :
2014
Firstpage :
772
Lastpage :
775
Abstract :
Breast cancer is one of the most feared cancers among women due its high incidence in females around the world. The screening tools that are used for breast cancer detection are mammogram, ultrasound, MRI, CT-scan, PET and thermogram. Although mammogram is considered as the gold standard screening tool, this procedure is invasive, expensive, time consuming and causes physical discomfort to the patient. Therefore, to overcome this problem, high interest has been given to thermogram, a non-ionizing and non-contact procedure. However, the absence of clear edges of breasts and low contrast may cause difficulty to analyze the thermogram. This study proposes a pre-processing method to detect breast and body boundaries to eliminate unwanted area and to extract colors in thermogram image. This pre-processing procedure is a technique done before the data is used for feature extraction and image classification process.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; feature extraction; gynaecology; image classification; image colour analysis; image segmentation; infrared imaging; medical image processing; CT-scan; MRI; PET; body boundary detection; breast boundary detection; breast cancer detection; breast thermography image; color extraction; color morphology; feature extraction; gold standard screening tool; image classification process; image segmentation; mammogram; noncontact procedure; nonionizing procedure; pre-processing method; pre-processing procedure; ultrasound; Breast cancer; Feature extraction; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Brest cancer; Image segmentation; Thermal image;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IECBES.2014.7047614
Filename :
7047614
Link To Document :
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