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A Survey on Imaging-based Breast Cancer Detection

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Breast cancer is undoubtedly a dreadful and life-threatening disease. It is fairly common in women and also the second deadliest cancer in the world. It is arguably the most frightening type of cancer because of its well-publicized nature and potential for lethality. If identified and properly treated in its early stage, the chance of cure increases. Different imaging techniques are there which plays a vital role in the detection of breast cancer. In recent days, mammography and thermography are the two main techniques accepted in the medical field to detect breast cancer followed by other screening methods. A literature survey is presented in this paper based on these two techniques followed by the analysis of their affordability, reliability, and outcomes.

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Acknowledgments

The first author would like to thank Biometrics Laboratory and Biomedical IR Imaging Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Tripura University (A central university) for providing the necessary infrastructure facilities to carry out the work. The research is supported by the grant no. BT/533/NE/TBP/2013 dated 03/03/2014 from Department of Biotechnology (NER Division), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tripura University (A Central University), Suryamaninagar, Agartala, 799022, India

    Debalina Saha & Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik

  2. Department of Physics, Tripura University (A Central University), Suryamaninagar, Agartala, 799022, India

    Barin Kumar De

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, India

    Debotosh Bhattacharjee

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Saha, D., Bhowmik, M.K., De, B.K., Bhattacharjee, D. (2015). A Survey on Imaging-based Breast Cancer Detection. In: Das, K., Deep, K., Pant, M., Bansal, J., Nagar, A. (eds) Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 335. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2217-0_22

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