Application of Infrared Images to Diagnosis and Modeling of Breast

Abstract

This chapter presents some developments and researches on using breast infrared images in Brazil (Visual Lab group of the Federal Fluminense University). These researches focus on comparing protocols for data acquisition using a FLIR SC 620 infrared (IR) camera; preprocessing the acquired data (using operations such as region of interest or ROI extraction, image registration and some other operations to prepare the images or thermal matrices to be used in computations); 3D reconstruction and, diagnostic recommendations from the IR data. These are steps for development of computer tools for screening breast diseases, mainly, to be used on public health system (named in Brazil: "Sistema Único de Saúde"-SUS). After experimentations and comparisons among the diversity of recommendations and ways of data acquisition reported in the literature, we propose a new protocol to IR data capture and storage. With these, we developed a web site that can be used