............................................................................................................................................................................ i Resumen .......................................................................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................................... v List of Figures ................................................................................................................................................................... ix List of Tables .................................................................................................................................................................. xiii List of Acronyms .............................................................................................................................................................. xv Chapter 1: Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Motivations .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Thesis organization ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Chapter 2: State-of-the-art in cancer detection using hyperspectral images ................................................................... 7 2.