A new infrared thermal imaging and its preliminary investigation of breast disease assessment

2007 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1071-1074

  Yang, Hong Qin ^a   Xie, Shu Sen ^a   Lin, Qing Yuan ^a   Ye, Zheng ^b   Chen, Shu Qiang ^b   Li, Hui ^a  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Medical University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

BREAST CANCERS; BREAST DISEASES; FEMALE BREASTS; INFRARED THERMAL IMAGING; MEAN TEMPERATURES; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 48149110967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2007.4381905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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