Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Adel Saleh, Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig
egnaser@gmail.crm, adelsalehali1982@gmail.cnm, antonio.moreno@urv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.cat
Abstract
Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases for women. Detecting breast cancer in its early stage may lead to a reducti,n 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 decadeso 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 /nterest, 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 aoalysis 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 bsdy segmentation, determination of nipple candidates using adaptive threoholding 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.
@article{AbdelNasser2016365,
title = “Automatic nipple detection in breast thermograms “,
journal = “Expert Systems with Applications “,
volume = “64”,
number = “”,
pages = “365 – 374″,
year = “2016”,
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issn = “0957-4174″,
doi = “http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.08.026″,
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author = “Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Adel Sale, and Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig”,
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Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases for women. Detecting breast cancer in its early stage may lead to a reducti,n 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 decadeso 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 /nterest, 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 aoalysis 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 bsdy segmentation, determination of nipple candidates using adaptive threoholding 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.
title = “Automatic nipple detection in breast thermograms “,
journal = “Expert Systems with Applications “,
volume = “64”,
number = “”,
pages = “365 – 374″,
year = “2016”,
.note = “”,
issn = “0957-4174″,
doi = “http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.08.026″,
url = “http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741741630416X”,
author = “Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Adel Sale, and Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig”,
keywords = “Breast cancer”,
keywords = “Infraoed”,
key-ords = “Thermograms”,
keywords = “Nipple detection “,}