Abstract:
In our world, breast cancer(BC) is the greatest cause of death next to lung cancer, but if this
cancer type is diagnosed early, it is curable. Different imaging tools are well established to
screen breast cancer including the current golden standard (mammography). However, due
to expos to radiation, the non-availability of the rural areas, low sensitivity in young women’s
and it’s being a painful procedure, the complement imaging tools have been explored and
researched.
In the work of literature, several efforts have been reported on detecting breast cancer using
thermography. However, accuracy is still challenging tasks because of the difficulty of quality
data collection, breast region of interest(ROI) segmentation, and optimal feature selection
techniques. In this thesis, the possibility of cancer detection using thermography imaging
tool has been investigated by giving special attention to the above three issues.
To realize this, by selecting the breast thermograms that obtained from dynamic acquisition
protocol new automatic segmentation technique using horizontal projection profile (HPP) and
height standardization approach has been applied.And also binary particle swarm optimization(
BPSO) based wrapper approach feature section methods have been proposed and 11 best
features were selected from 26 attributes. The effect of using the proposed (BPSO) technique
as a feature selection has been evaluated.
Finally, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) has been used as a classifier to distinguish breast
thermograms as normal and abnormal classes. MATLAB environment has been used to train
and test the proposed approach using percentage-split (80% for training and 20% for testing)
evaluation method. In this study, the overall classification accuracy shows that 96.2264%.