Diagnosis of breast cancer using elastic-scattering spectroscopy: Preliminary clinical results

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 221-228

  Bigio, Irving J ^a   Bown, Stephen G ^b   Briggs, Gavin ^b   Kelley, Christine ^a   Lakhani, Sunil ^c   Pickard, David ^b   Ripley, Paul M ^a   Rose, Ian G ^a   Saunders, Christobel ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; ELASTIC-SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY;

DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBES; SPECTROSCOPY; SURGERY; TISSUE;

ONCOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034164358     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429990     Document Type: Article

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