OBJECTIVE to evaluate techniques of massage and pumping in the treatment of postpartum breast engorgement through thermography. METHOD the study was conducted in the Human Milk Bank of a hospital in Curitiba, Brazil. We randomly selected 16 lactating women with engorgement with the classification lobar, ampullary and glandular, moderate and intense. We compared the differential patterns of te...

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...

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...

Breast cancer is the main cause of death among young women in developing countries. The human body temperature carries critical medical information related to the overall body status. Abnormal rise in total and regional body temperature is a natural symptom in diagnosing many diseases. Thermal imaging (Thermography) utilizes infrared beams which are fast, non-invasive, and non-contact and the o...

Thermography makes a significant contribution to the evaluation of patients suspected of having breast cancer. The obviously abnormal thermogram carries with it a high risk of cancer. This report summarizes the results of patients with questionable or stage Th III thermograms. From approximately 58,000 patients, most of whom had breast complaints, examined between August 1965 and June 1977, the...

Breast cancer is one of the most important causes of death among women in world between the age of 40 and 55. Breast cancer can be treated effectively only if it is detected at a premature stage. Imaging techniques play a considerable role in assisting breast biopsies, especially of abnormal areas that cannot be felt but can be seen on a conventional mammogram or other techniques. To help radio...

In Civil Engineering, the application of infrared thermography is not limited to passive investigations of the quality of thermal insulation of building envelopes. Basic principles of the two main techniques of active infrared thermography, which are pulse thermography (PT) and Lock-in thermography (LT), are briefly recalled. In this paper, the use of passive infrared thermography technique for...