Feature selection and definition for contours classification of thermograms in breast cancer detection

Dariusz Jagodziński; Mateusz Matysiewicz; Łukasz Neumann; Robert M. Nowak; Rafał Okuniewski; Witold Oleszkiewicz; Paweł Cichosz

doi:10.1117/12.2249064

28 September 2016 Feature selection and definition for contours classification of thermograms in breast cancer detection

Dariusz Jagodziński, Mateusz Matysiewicz, Łukasz Neumann, Robert M. Nowak, Rafał Okuniewski, Witold Oleszkiewicz, Paweł Cichosz

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Proceedings Volume 10031, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2016; 100312U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249064
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2016, 2016, Wilga, Poland

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This contribution introduces the method of cancer pathologies detection on breast skin temperature distribution images. The use of thermosensitive foils applied to the breasts skin allows to create thermograms, which displays the amount of infrared energy emitted by all breast cells. The significant foci of hyperthermia or inflammation are typical for cancer cells. That foci can be recognized on thermograms as a contours, which are the areas of higher temperature. Every contour can be converted to a feature set that describe it, using the raw, central, Hu, outline, Fourier and colour moments of image pixels processing. This paper defines also the new way of describing a set of contours through theirs neighbourhood relations. Contribution introduces moreover the way of ranking and selecting most relevant features. Authors used Neural Network with Gevrey`s concept and recursive feature elimination, to estimate feature importance.

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Dariusz Jagodziński, Mateusz Matysiewicz, Łukasz Neumann, Robert M. Nowak, Rafał Okuniewski, Witold Oleszkiewicz, and Paweł Cichosz "Feature selection and definition for contours classification of thermograms in breast cancer detection", Proc. SPIE 10031, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2016, 100312U (28 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249064

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