Detection and Characterization of CancerousTumors

A method for determining the presence of heat generating tissue in a body part, comprising:

• obtaining multi-view images of a body part, wherein the multi-view images comprise infrared images depicting a temperature distribution at the surface of the body part;
• constructing a library comprising a plurality of 3-D digital models representative of the body part wherein the models comprise geometric and thermal identifiers;
• comparing the obtained multi-view images of the body part with the geometric and thermal identifiers in the library to identify a 3-D digital model representing the surface and internal tissue of the body part;
• generating a 3-D phantom thermal model by assigning values to selected parameters in the identified 3-D digital model of the body part and the surroundings and solving heat transfer equations, wherein the 3-D phantom thermal model comprises phantom thermal images of the surface of the body part;
• comparing the phantom thermal images of the surface of the body part with the infrared images depicting a temperature distribution at the surface of the body part;
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• identifying the values of the selected parameters generating the phantom thermal images matching the infrared images.