Automatic nipple detection in breast thermograms

作者：

Highlights：

• We propose an automatic and accurate method to detect nipples in thermograms.

• The proposed method determines the nipples using a novel selection algorithm.

• We achieve accurate nipple detection results in real-time.

摘要

•We propose an automatic and accurate method to detect nipples in thermograms.•The proposed method determines the nipples using a novel selection algorithm.•We achieve accurate nipple detection results in real-time.

论文关键词：Breast cancer,Infrared,Thermograms,Nipple detection

论文评审过程：Received 3 March 2016, Revised 1 July 2016, Accepted 3 August 2016, Available online 4 August 2016, Version of Record 6 August 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.08.026