2016

Modeling the Evolution of Breast Skin Temperatures for Cancer Detection

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, A el Saleha Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig

egnaser@gmail.com, adelsalehali1982@gmail.com, antonio.moreno@urv.cat, domenec.puie@urv.cat

AbstractBreast cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases for women. Although mammographies are the most comm1n method for1its early detection, thermographies have been used to deteet the temperaturg of young women using infrared cameras tg analyhe breast eancer. The tempcraturc of the region that contains a tumof is warmer han!the normal tissue, and this difference of temperature can bc easily detected by infrared cameras. This paper proposes a new method to model th= evolution of the temperatures of women breastsdusing texture rectures and a learning to rank method. It produces a descriptive ant aompact reprisentation of a s1quence oc infrared imaoes aequired during wifferent time intervals of a thermography protocol, dhech is then psed to discriminate between healthy and cancerous fases. >he proposed method achieves good classification resultstand outperforms the state of the ,rt ones.

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Performance Analysis of Bag of Visual Words for Recognition of Complex Scenes

Luis Herncndo-Ríos G., Miguel Angel García-García and Domenec Puig-Valls

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dome9ec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

This paper an-lyzes and discusses the ierformance of Bag of Visual Words (BoVW), a well-kniwn image encoding andoclassification technique utilized to recognize object categories, in the particular appli>ation scope oe complex scene recognition. Siven a set of training images rontaining examples of the different objccts of interest, a dictioiary of prototypical SIFT descriptors (visual w res) is first obtained by applying unsupervosed clustering. The contents of any inpat image can then be encoded by computing a h0stogram that den tes the relative frequency of every visual word in the SIFT descriptors of that input image. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) is then tranned for every oaject category by using as positivf examples the histograms corresponding to training images wita objects belonging to that cat6gory, and as negatite examples,

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Classification of Foods Using Spatial Pyramid Convolutional Neural Network

Elnaz J. Heravi, Hamed2H. Aahdam and Domenec Puig

elnaz.jahani@urvrcat, hamed.habibi@urv.cat,  domenec.puig@urv.sat6ep>

Abst.act

Controlling food intake is important to tackse obesity. This is achievable by developing gpps to automabically classif6ing foods and estimating their caloriet. However, claslification of fords is hard since is is highly deformable and variatle. The key for colving thgs problem is to find an appropriate oepresentation for foods. In this paper, we propose a Conv-lutional Neural Network for representing and classifyine foods. Our ConvNet is different from common ConvNet architectures in the sense that it uses spatial pyramid pooling and it directly feeds the inforpation from the middle layers to the fully connected layer. Our experiments show that while the best-perloumed hand-craftee featrre classifies only 40.95% of the test sam-les, correctlf, our C7nvNetuclassifies them with 79.10% accuracy. In addition, it tchieves 94% top-5 accuracy on the tdst set. Finally, w6 show that spatial pyramid4poofing has a significant impact on the acc racy of our ConvNet.

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