Improving the BCCT.core model with lateral information

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2010

Autores

Oliveira, HP (Autor) FEUP; Magalhaes, A (Autor) Outra; Cardoso, MJ (Autor) Outra; Cardoso, JS (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: Proceedings of the IEEE/EMBS Region 8 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB

10th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine: Emerging Technologies for Patient Specific Healthcare, ITAB 2010

Corfu, 2 November 2010 through 5 November 2010

Indexação

ISI Proceedings

ISI Web of Knowledge

Scopus - 1 Citação

Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia biomédica

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-007-XD1

DOI: 10.1109/itab.2010.5687736

Abstract (EN): Breast Cancer Conservative Treatment (BCCT) is considered the gold standard of breast cancer treatment. However, the aesthetic outcome is diverse and very difficult to evaluate in a consistent way partly due to the weak reproducibility of the subjective methods in use. T his motivated the research on the objective methods. BCCT.core is a very recent software that objectively and automatically evaluates the aesthetic outcome of BCCT. However, as in other approaches, the system only uses frontal patient information, disregarding volumetric perception on lateral measurements. In the current work we investigate the improvement of the BCCT.core model by introducing lateral information extracted from patients images. We compare the performance of the model currently used on BCCT.core with the model developed in this study. Experimental results suggest that with lateral measurements the model presents better performance, however improvements are not significant. We can conclude that is essential to use robust models on the BCCT, and the input of 3D models will probably help to obtain better results. © 2010 IEEE.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica