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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2008
Louis G. Keith, Chicago, IL (US);
William H. Reeves, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Jimmy D. Holmes, Reno, NV (US);
Rajendra Acharya U, Singapore, SG;
Yin Kwee NG, Singapore, SG;
Louis G. Keith, Chicago, IL (US);
William H. Reeves, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Jimmy D. Holmes, Reno, NV (US);
Rajendra Acharya U, Singapore, SG;
Yin Kwee Ng, Singapore, SG;
Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A device for providing improved classification of breast tissue wherein the tissue is classified as one of cancerous and non-cancerous tissue includes sensors for sensing temperature of a subject breast tissue over a predetermined period and generating signals in response thereto and a computer operatively connected to the sensors for receiving and manipulating the signals operatively associated with a normalizer for applying a normalization to each the signal by a function of X/Y where X is one temperature reading of one of the signals for a particular subject and Y is the maximum temperature obtained from a predetermined number sets of temperature readings obtained a plurality of subject breast tissue from the subject to provide a set of normalized signals used by a trained artificial classifier to produce a signal indicative of cancerous and non-cancerous tissue of the subject.