Early detection of breast cancer is the key to improve survival rate. Thermogram is a promising front-line screening tool as it is able to warn women of breast cancer up to 10 years in advance. However, analysis and interpretation of thermogram are heavily dependent on the analysts, which may be inconsistent and error-prone. In order to boost the accuracy of preliminary screening using thermogr...

Breast Thermography is an emerging medical imaging tool, used for early detection of breast cancer. The growing tumor in the breast will cause the occurrence of some asymmetric heat patterns in the left and right breast. Asymmetry analysis of left and right breast is used for detecting the breast cancer from the breast thermogram images. This paper presents a method for segmenting the left and ...

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is a premalignant proliferative disorder that may progress to multiple myeloma, a malignant plasma cell neoplasia. We evaluated differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) as an experimental tool for differentiating serum samples of MGUS patients from healthy individuals. DSC thermograms can be used for monitoring changes in the serum proteo...

BACKGROUND DSC is used to determine thermally-induced conformational changes of biomolecules within a blood plasma sample. Recent research has indicated that DSC curves (or thermograms) may have different characteristics based on disease status and, thus, may be useful as a monitoring and diagnostic tool for some diseases. Since thermograms are curves measured over a range of temperature values...

The colonial growth of Bacillus subtilis vegetative and spore cells was evaluated by determining the time course of the growth heat changes (growth thermogram) with a microbial calorimeter. The actual heat evolution curve (f (t) curve) obtained from the thermogram was in good agreement with the viable cell number changes. From the logarithmic f (t) curve, the exponential growth phase was estima...

Temperature has been used to diagnose human’s health since 400 B.C. where Hippocrates reported disease is to be found whichever part of human body is in excess heat or cold. This idea is still widely applied nowadays and the advance in infrared thermography technology is furthering the idea into more sophisticated diagnosis techniques, such as detection of breast cancer. Detection of ocular dis...

Thermography is a non-invasive and non-contact imaging technique widely used in the medical arena. This paper investigates the analysis of thermograms with the use of biostatistical methods and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). It is desired that through these approaches, highly accurate diagnosis using thermography techniques can be established. The proposed advanced technique is a multipronge...

From the last 1.5 decades of complying with the strict standardized thermogram interpretation protocols by proper infrared trained personnel as documented in literature, breast thermography has achieved an average sensitivity and specificity of 90%. An abnormal thermogram is reported as the significant biological risk marker for the existence of or continues development of breast tumor. This re...

The aim of this work is to detect breast cancer using thermographic Images. Mammogram is a very popular imaging modality used for identifying breast cancer but fails to identify disease at an early stage, hence an emerging InfraRed(IR) technology known as thermogram is used for early stage detection. Clinical infrared thermography is a procedure that detects, records and produces images dependi...