Breast Infrared Thermography Segmentation Based on Adaptive Tuning of a Fully Convolutional Network.

Journal: Current medical imaging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Accurate segmentation of Breast Infrared Thermography is an important step for early detection of breast pathological changes. Automatic segmentation of Breast Infrared Thermography is a very challenging task, as it is difficult to find an accurate breast contour and extract regions of interest from it. Although several semi-automatic methods have been proposed for segmentation, their performance often depends on hand-crafted image features, as well as preprocessing operations.

Authors

  • Mazhar Basyouni Tayel
    Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Azza Mahmoud Elbagoury
    Department of Basic Science, Faculty of Engineering, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt.