Methods and systems for detecting cancer
Abstract
A technique for classifying lesions as malignant or benign is disclosed. The technique can include: cooling an area of skin including a lesion of a patient to initiate a warm-up process; receiving a temporal sequence of thermal images of the area of skin representing a thermal recovery of the area of skin, the temporal sequence of thermal images generated by an infrared camera; generating a temporal profile of the thermal recovery based on the temporal sequence of thermal images; analyzing temporal statistical properties of the temporal profile; determining a malignancy probability that the lesion is malignant based on an analysis of the temporal profile, wherein the determining includes extracting one or more statistical features based on continuous-time stochastic signals in the sequence of thermal images; and classifying the lesion based on the malignancy probability.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- STC.UNM, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1568288
- Patent Number(s):
- 10,278,649
- Application Number:
- 15/531,135
- Assignee:
- STC.UNM (Albuquerque, NM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0002494
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 11/24/2015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
Citation Formats
Hayat, Majeed M., Krishna, Sanjay, Godoy, Sebastian Eugenio, and Ramirez, David A. Methods and systems for detecting cancer. United States: N. p., 2019.
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Hayat, Majeed M., Krishna, Sanjay, Godoy, Sebastian Eugenio, & Ramirez, David A. Methods and systems for detecting cancer. United States.
Hayat, Majeed M., Krishna, Sanjay, Godoy, Sebastian Eugenio, and Ramirez, David A. Tue .
"Methods and systems for detecting cancer". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1568288.
@article{osti_1568288,
title = {Methods and systems for detecting cancer},
author = {Hayat, Majeed M. and Krishna, Sanjay and Godoy, Sebastian Eugenio and Ramirez, David A.},
abstractNote = {A technique for classifying lesions as malignant or benign is disclosed. The technique can include: cooling an area of skin including a lesion of a patient to initiate a warm-up process; receiving a temporal sequence of thermal images of the area of skin representing a thermal recovery of the area of skin, the temporal sequence of thermal images generated by an infrared camera; generating a temporal profile of the thermal recovery based on the temporal sequence of thermal images; analyzing temporal statistical properties of the temporal profile; determining a malignancy probability that the lesion is malignant based on an analysis of the temporal profile, wherein the determining includes extracting one or more statistical features based on continuous-time stochastic signals in the sequence of thermal images; and classifying the lesion based on the malignancy probability.},
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