Enhancement Algorithm for Breast Cancer Detection

Abstract

Thesis Summary Breast cancer has a great attention worldwide due to the increase of the number of patients, especially women, suffering from this disease. However, breast cancer can be cured if it is detected in its early stages. Many pathological studies reported that more than 75% – 80% of all tumors are still benign at the primary stages. Therefore, recently, many studies and extensive researches are done to detect breast cancer with higher accuracy. Breast thermography is a promising screening technique for the early detection of breast cancer. Breast thermography is the physiological exam that records the temperature variation utilizing the infrared radiation released from the breast surface. Usually, this temperature variation is affected by the level of blood perfusion in the breast skin. Blood perfusion level is influenced by different causes, for example, inflammation, and the presence of tumor. The infrared camera can capture these progressions extremely well and consequently, breast thermography can be utilized to recognize the breast variation from the norm in its beginning time.