Thermography based breast cancer detection using texture features and support vector machine

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1503-1510

  Acharya, U Rajendra ^a   Ng, E Y K ^b   Tan, Jen Hong ^a,b   Sree, S Vinitha ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Classifier; Malignant; Support vector machine; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGAPORE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THERMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864041435     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9611-z     Document Type: Article

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