  In this work the metabolic heat generated by breast tumors was estimated
indirectly and noninvasively from digital infrared images and numerically
simulating a simplified breast model and a cancerous tumor, this parameter can
be of clinical importance since it has been related to the doubling volume's
time and malignancy for that particular tumor. The results indicate that
digital infrared imaging has the potential to estimate in a non-invasive way
the malignancy of a tumor by calculating its metabolic heat generation from
bioheat thermal transfer models.
