Thermography as an Economical Alternative Modality to Mammography for Early Detection of Breast Cancer

Table 3

Comparison of the proposed method of thermography and results of other research findings.

S. no.	Reference	Methodology	Database	Results (%)
1	Rangaraj et al. [11]	ANN		61.54
2	Haralick et al. [12]	Biostatistical methods and artificial neural networks (ANNs)	—	80.95
3	Li et al. [13]	ANN + RBFN		80.95
4	Wei et al. [14]	Statistical features	—	85.71
5	Niaz et al. [15]	Statistical image features	Brno University of Technology	91.09
6	Wang et al. [16]	Bayesian network		71.88
7	Rabidas et al. [17]	Image symmetry features	Brno University of Technology	90.03
8	Silva et al. [18]	SVM + RBF		90
9	Bovik et al. [20]	CNNs		92
10	Jain and Farrokhina [21]	Multilayer perception		95
11	Proposed method	Gabor features and ensemble classification	DMR (Database for Mastology Research) database	96.57