What is disclosed is an apparatus for enabling privacy for patients undergoing breast cancer screening in a non-clinical setting. One embodiment of the present apparatus comprises an enclosure in which a person can remove one or more garments to expose their breasts to a thermal camera for breast cancer screening. T...

What is disclosed is a system and method for automatically segmenting a breast from surrounding tissue in a thermal image. A thermal image of at least one breast of the patient is received. The thermal image is then analyzed to identify a set of N points around the breast a contour of an outline of the body and isot...

What is disclosed is a software tool which enables medical practitioners to manually or automatically analyze a thermal image of an area of breast tissue for the presence of tumorous tissue. In one embodiment the software interface tool disclosed herein comprises a patient details object which enables the display of...

SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GENERATE DISCRETIZED INTERPRETABLE FEATURES IN MACHINE LEARNING MODEL A system (110) and method for processing values of a subset of numeric features to provide interpretability of the results of a machine learning model, by determining an extent of the contribution of the subset of features ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HOTSPOT LOCATIONS IN BREAST THERMOGRAMS A system (107) and method for automatically detecting a location of a plurality of hotspots from a thermal image of a breast region of a subject by (i) automatically detecting areolar points (x, y) from the thermal image of the b...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF BREAST HEALTH A system and method for a quantitative evaluation of a breast health of a pregnant and lactating woman for clinical management of a breast feeding by performing (i) receiving a thermal image of a breast region of the pregnant and lactating woman, captur...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING DENSITY OF A TISSUE FROM THERMOGRAMS A system and method for estimating density of a tissue from thermal images by (i) receiving a thermal image of a tissue of a subject, which represents a temperature distribution on the tissue of the subject as pixels in the thermal image, (ii) cl...

A method for identifying errors associated with subject positioning in a thermal image from a user and generating a feedback to enable the user for adaptive positioning of the 5 subject for capturing a new thermal image. The method includes (i) receiving a thermal image of body of a subject, (ii) automatically segme...

A method for determining a view angle of a thermal image from a user and generating a suggestion to enable the user for adaptive positioning of a subject for capturing the thermal image is provided. The method includes (i) receiving a thermal image of a body of a subject, (ii) automatically determining a view angle ...

What is disclosed  is a system and method for breast cancer screening which determines whether hot spots, as seen in a thermal image of both breasts, can be classified as possibly malignant based on a measure of symmetry. A thermographic image of both breasts of a patient is received and analyzed to determine wheth...

What is disclosed is a system and method for classifying the hormone receptor status of malignant tumorous tissue identified in a thermographic image of a breast. One embodiment of the present method involves the following. First receive thermographic image(s) of both breasts of a patient with a malignant tumorous r...

BLOOD VESSEL EXTRACTION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL THERMOGRAPHY A system and method for isolating blood vessels in a thermographic image of a patient"s breast or any other muscular region of the body. The thermographic image is received and a temperature-based analysis is performed to detect vessel pixels. An intensity-ba...

What is disclosed is a system and method for contour-based determination of malignant tissue in a thermal image of a patient for cancer screening. In one embodiment the method involves receiving a thermal image for cancer screening. Pixels in the thermal image with a higher temperature value are displayed in a first...

SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT PRESENCE OF SKIN ABNORMALITIES A system (110) for automatically detecting the presence of abnormal heat patterns on skin of a human subject (100) using a non-invasive thermal imaging technique by performing (i) receiving thermal images of the human subject (100) that are captured or recor...

ABSTRACT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING HIGH TEMPERATURE REGION PIXELS ON A MAMMOGRAPHY IMAGE A system (104) for annotating mammography images of a subject (100) using thermal images and mammography images of the subject using thermal and mammography images of the subject (100) by (i) identifying a first breast r...

A system 100 and method for identifying an abnormality in a human breast region by automatically determining a physical change on a surface of the human breast region is provided. The system 100 includes an image capturing device 102 and a computing device 104 includes a memory and a processor106. The processor 106i...