Combination of Mammography and Thermal Infrared Imaging to Differentiate

Benign and Malignant Breast Cancer : A Literature Review

This could be the poster title Ardhin Martdana1 , Lies Mardiyana2
1Resident of Department Radiology 2Consultant
This could be your sub-line – Authors, Co-Authors, Institution, etc. Faculty
of Medicine Universitas Airlangga, RSUD DR Soetomo Surabaya, Indonesia of
Department Radiology Faculty of Medicine Universitas Airlangga, RSUD DR Soetomo Surabaya, Indonesia.

Introduction Discussion
Early Detection
of Breast Thermal imaging of breast cancer
Cancer is shows different cell heat transfer
Challenging
compared to normal and it is able
Better to visualize the location and
Combination
Mammography activity of the tumour. Thermal
Imaging Figure 2. Thermographic images: (a) Normal Breast (b) Benign
detection
imaging has high negative Cancer (c) Malignant Cancer
predictive value to differentiate
malignant and benign breast Breast Density Specific Thermal ωbCb Qm
cancer and potentially important Layer (kg/m3) heat (J/kg conductivity (W/m3 (W/m3)
Mammography clinical use for diagnostic tool. K) (W/m) ◦C)
Image and Thermal Subcutan 930 2770 0.21 800 400
breast imaging eous fat
metabolism The sensitivity of mammography is
Gland 1050 3770 0.48 2400 700
approximately 63% in very dense breasts
Objective and 87% in breasts with higher fat
content; its specificity is between 87% Tumour 1050 3770 0.48 48000 65,400
and 99%. Breast thermography having an (D =
Combination of Mammography average sensitivity and effectiveness of 10mm)
and Thermal Infrared Imaging 90% Blood 1100 3300 0.45

Mammography Thermography
Table 1. Thermo-physical parameters of the breast model.
• High Sensitivity • High Sensitivity
• Low Specificity and Effectiveness Conclusion
1. High Negative Predictive Combination of Mammography and Infrared thermal imaging
Increase Specificity and Value
improves sensitivity and specificity for benign and malignant
breast cancer diagnosis. This combination also gives
Sensitivity 2. Thermography can
clinician insight of how certain types of breast tumor
compares the physiology
behave.
of two breasts at once
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benign breast cancer

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Figure 1. Breast thermography procedure (thermal
2021;2021.
image is acquired at room temperature = 22˚C)