Computer simulation in conjunction with medical thermography as an adjunct tool for early detection of breast cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ng, Eddie Y K ^a   Sudharsan, N M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer modelling; Early diagnostic; Mammography; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MODEL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOLOGIST; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042716481     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-4-17     Document Type: Article

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