Software tool for breast cancer screening

A software interface tool for classifying tissue in a thermal image of a breast as being tumorous, comprising:

• a patient details object which enables a user to enter, edit, and save patient information;
• and
• a tissue segmentation object which enables a user to identify a block of pixels from the thermal image;
• a tumor classification object which, upon selection, executes machine readable program instructions for performing:
• determining (R1) whether k1% of the block of pixels have a temperature above a first threshold θ1 based on a temperature distribution of pixels in the block;
• determining (R2) whether k2% of the block of have a temperature above a second threshold (Tmax−θ2), where Tmax is a maximum body temperature of the patient;
• determining (R3) whether k3% of a block of pixels in the thermal image have a temperature below a threshold θ3 based on normal body surface temperature;
• determining (R4) whether an edge length of a block of pixels is k4% of a perimeter of the block;
• and
• classifying, based a decision rule based on (R1, R2, R3, R4), tissue as being tumorous and non-tumorous otherwise.