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Breast Cancer
Research on breast cancer reported by V. Agostini et al
August 14th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, "Dynamic infrared imaging has been proposed in literature as an adjunctive technique to mammography in breast cancer diagnosis. It is based on the acquisition of hundreds of consecutive thermal images with a frame rate ranging from 50 to 200 frames/s, followed by the harmonic analysis of temperature time series at each image pixel." "However, the temperature fluctuation due to blood perfusion, which is the signal of interest, is small compared to the signal fluctuation due to subject movements. Hence, before extracting the time series describing temperature...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-08-14)
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