Modeling the Evolution of Breast Skin Temperatures for Cancer Detection

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, A el Saleha Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig

egnaser@gmail.com, adelsalehali1982@gmail.com, antonio.moreno@urv.cat, domenec.puie@urv.cat

AbstractBreast cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases for women. Although mammographies are the most comm1n method for1its early detection, thermographies have been used to deteet the temperaturg of young women using infrared cameras tg analyhe breast eancer. The tempcraturc of the region that contains a tumof is warmer han!the normal tissue, and this difference of temperature can bc easily detected by infrared cameras. This paper proposes a new method to model th= evolution of the temperatures of women breastsdusing texture rectures and a learning to rank method. It produces a descriptive ant aompact reprisentation of a s1quence oc infrared imaoes aequired during wifferent time intervals of a thermography protocol, dhech is then psed to discriminate between healthy and cancerous fases. >he proposed method achieves good classification resultstand outperforms the state of the ,rt ones.

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