Detecting and tracking female breasts using neural network in real-time

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Electronics And Communications Engg

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Abstract

The general aim of this research is helping women to perform breast self-examination (BSE) for finding out any abnormality, change, or lump in the breasts. BSE involves checking the breasts for finding abnormalities, lumps, or changes. This paper reports about our initial efforts to detect and track the left and right breasts in real-time imaging. Image frames were processed considering the color information, and integral image processing to segment regions of interest (ROI) according to common colors of breast features. After getting the preliminary candidate regions, the vector of features were used as the inputs of neural network. The algorithm applies each ROI into the artificial neural network (ANN) for detection of the right and left breasts. Results of the study show that the proposed ANN successfully identifies the position and location of the breasts. © 2013 IEEE.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1109/TENCON.2013.6718899

Disciplines

Biomedical | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Keywords

Breast—Examination; Self-examination, Medical; Breast—Cancer; Neural networks (Computer science)

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