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Comparison of breast temperature in the contralateral breast is very helpful in breast cancer diagnosis. Asymmetrical thermal diffusion might be a sign of early irregularity. Practically, most of the existent breast thermograms do not possess symmetric borders. Consequently, a suitable registration is required for comparing temperature distribution of two breasts by investigating in contrast the extracted features . In this book chapter, the proposed registration algorithm includes two steps. First, shape context, the technique as introduced by Belongie et al, was used to register two breast borders. Second, a mapping function of boundaries points was obtained and applied for mapping two breasts’ interior points. Results are very encouraging. Boundary registration was accomplished perfectly for 28 out of the 32 cases.
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Etehadtavakol, M., Ng, E.Y.K. (2017). Registration of Contralateral Breasts Thermograms by Shape Context Technique. In: Ng, E., Etehadtavakol, M. (eds) Application of Infrared to Biomedical Sciences. Series in BioEngineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3147-2_5
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