| Description |
1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1. Main Problems in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatments -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Main challenges in cancer detection -- 1.2.1 Standard methods for cancer detection -- 1.2.2 Recent methods for cancer detection and diagnosis -- 1.3 Main challenges in cancer treatments -- 1.3.1 Main cancer treatments vs thermotherapies -- 1.4 Main challenges in the clinical application of new treatments -- Reference list -- 2. Bioimpedance and Cancer Detection -- 2.1 Bioimpedance basics |
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2.1.1 Electrical properties of the cells -- 2.1.2 Electrical properties of malignant tissues -- 2.1.3 Electrodes and probe -- 2.1.4 Instrumentation -- 2.2 Bioimpedance applications -- 2.2.1 Circulating tumoral cells detection (CTC) -- 2.2.2 Breast cancer detection by EIS -- 2.2.3 Breast cancer detection by MIS -- Reference list -- 3. Thermal Images: Towards Cancer Detection -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Thermal images principles and applications -- 3.2.1 Infrared sensors, readings, and data arrays -- 3.2.2 Thermal camera characterization -- 3.2.3 Thermal imaging in medicine |
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3.2.4 Correlation between physiology and thermal images -- 3.2.5 Thermal data and image processing -- 3.3 Breast cancer thermal imaging -- 3.3.1 Device criteria -- 3.3.2 Procedures for routine tests and preparing patients -- 3.3.3 Image analysis and interpretation -- 3.3.4 Risk and prognostic diagnosis -- 3.3.5 A comparison of thermography and other medical techniques -- 3.4 Current advances and perspectives -- 3.5 Conclusions -- Reference list -- 4. Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Detection -- 4.1 Introduction: Artificial Intelligence and its clinical relevance -- 4.2 Data acquisition |
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4.2.1 Clinical data -- 4.2.2 Cancer medical imaging -- 4.3 Preprocessing -- 4.4 Processing -- 4.4.1 Feature extraction and selection methods -- 4.4.2 Classification methods -- 4.4.3 Segmentation methods -- 4.5 Visualization and presentation -- 4.6 Validation and assessment of results -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Reference list -- 5. Hyperspectral Imaging for Cancer Applications -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 HSI Instrumentation -- 5.3 HSI analysis algorithms -- 5.4 HSI applications in cancer detection -- 5.4.1 Skin cancer applications -- 5.4.2 Brain cancer applications |
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5.4.3 Gastrointestinal cancer applications -- 5.4.4 Head and neck cancer applications -- 5.4.5 Histological samples in cancer applications -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Reference list -- 6. Oral Cancer Detection by Multi-Spectral Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (m-FLIM) and Linear Unmixing -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Non-invasive mFLIM techniques -- 6.3 m-FLIM optical instrumentation -- 6.4 m-FLIM data processing and fluorescence lifetime estimation -- 6.5 Linear unmixing -- 6.6 EBEAE analysis of m-FLIM datasets for oral cancer detection -- 6.7 Conclusions -- Reference list |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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7. Thermotherapies based on Microwaves (MW) and Radiofrequencies (RF) |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Flores, Dora-Luz
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| ISBN |
9781000986655 |
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1000986659 |
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