This paper compares the effectiveness of the dTnorm and t90_10 parametrizations in dynamic thermography for imaging location of perforators in TRAM flaps in the intraoperative period. The results were compared with the location detected in a Doppler ultrasound examination. Cold and heat stimulation was used in dynamic thermography. Additionally, these results were compared with static thermogra...

Breast cancer is a major public health problem worldwide. Important advances have improved survival, but early detection remains the main clinical challenge in reducing mortality. Currently, mammography is the ‘gold standard’ tool for breast cancer screening. However, the search for an early breast cancer detection method is the subject of extensive research. Although infrared imaging or breast...

Thermography is a passive and non-contact imaging technique used extensively in the medical arena, but in relation to breast care, it has not been accepted as being on a par with mammography. This paper proposes the analysis of thermograms with the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) and bio-statistical methods, including regression and receiver operating characteristics (ROC). It is desire...

Thermography, a pictorial display of the infrared radiation of the breast, has been used for approximately 25 years as an aid in the evaluation of breast problems. Its inception dates to Lawson’s observations in 1956-1958 that a breast cancer may be warmer than surrounding tissue.’-’ He also showed that the venous blood draining the cancer may be warmer than its arterial supply. Many investigat...

In recent years, a technique known as thermography has been again seriously considered as a complementary tool for the pre-diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, we explore the predictive value of thermographic atributes, from a database containing 98 cases of patients with suspicion of having breast cancer, using Bayesian networks. Each patient has corresponding results for different diagn...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Non-invasive and non-ionizing medical imaging techniques are safe as these can be repeatedly used on as individual and are applicable across all age groups. Breast thermography is a non-invasive and non-ionizing medical imaging that can be potentially used in breast cancer detection and diagnosis. In this study, we used breast thermography to estimate the tumour contour ...

• Overview of the mathematical basis and historical development thermography as a supplementary technique for breast cancer detection. numerical simulation detection bioheat transfer equation, employed tool thermography. methods techniques Artificial Intelligence that were used to detect based on obtained thermograms. Highlights simulations problems cancer. Further early using Intelligence. Bre...

In this area, there was a large group of well women aged over 35 years eager for breast screening. For this survey using clinical examination, thermography, and mammography, we selected women considered to be at higher than average risk of breast cancer. Initially, unselected women were seen, by appointment, for clinical examination and thermography (see pp. 1664-1670, this issue). From that gr...

In our paper3 we presented obtained results that were carefully analyzed and shown as a new insight in existing area: use of mammography and thermography simultaneously. We confi rmed the high sensitivity of thermography4 and based on other similar research we concluded that »it would be prudent« (no must or have to) »to use thermography as a primary screening method« (not the only one) »in det...

Microwave thermography, a method of sensing subcutaneous temperatures, was used in a breast cancer detection study of about 5,000 female patients. The data were taken at wavelengths of 9.1 and 23 cm. Microwave thermography at 23 cm has true-positive and true-negative detection rates of 0.8 and 0.6, respectively, comparable to those of infrared thermography (0.7) and inferior to those of xeromam...