Morphological measurement of localized temperature increase amplitudes in breast infrared thermograms and its clinical application

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 312-318

  Tang, Xianwu ^a   Ding, Haishu ^a   Yuan, Yun e ^b   Wang, Qing ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Infrared thermography; Localized temperature increase; Mathematical morphology; Screening

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DIAGNOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; SCREENING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; LOCALIZED TEMPERATURE INCREASE; MORPHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAPHIC DETECTION;

DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 50249131966     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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