Determination of female breast tumor and its parameter estimation by thermal simulation

Xin-guang Chen; A-qing Xu; Hong-qin Yang; Yu-hua Wang; Shu-sen Xie

doi:10.1117/12.841133

23 February 2010 Determination of female breast tumor and its parameter estimation by thermal simulation

Xin-guang Chen, A-qing Xu, Hong-qin Yang, Yu-hua Wang, Shu-sen Xie

Proceedings Volume 7557, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging V; 75570U (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841133
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Thermal imaging is an emerging method for early detection of female breast tumor. The main challenge for thermal imaging used in breast clinics lies in how to detect or locate the tumor and obtain its related parameters. The purpose of this study is to apply an improved method which combined a genetic algorithm with finite element thermal analysis to determine the breast tumor and its parameters, such as the size, location, metabolic heat generation and blood perfusion rate. A finite element model for breast embedded a tumor was used to investigate the temperature distribution, and then the influences of tumor metabolic heat generation, tumor location and tumor size on the temperature were studied by use of an improved genetic algorithm. The results show that thermal imaging is a potential and effective detection tool for early breast tumor, and thermal simulation may be helpful for the explanation of breast thermograms.

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Xin-guang Chen, A-qing Xu, Hong-qin Yang, Yu-hua Wang, and Shu-sen Xie "Determination of female breast tumor and its parameter estimation by thermal simulation", Proc. SPIE 7557, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging V, 75570U (23 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841133

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