UWB microwave breast cancer detection: Generalized models and performance prediction

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2630-2633

  Chen, Yifan ^a   Gunawan, Erry ^a   Kim, Yongmin ^b   Low, Kay Soon ^a   Soh, Cheong Boon ^a   Thi, Lin Lin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Pulse shapes; Statistical clutter modeling; UWB microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROWAVES; POLYNOMIALS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; HERMITE POLYNOMIALS; PULSE SHAPES; STATISTICAL CLUTTER MODELING; UWB MICROWAVE IMAGING;

ONCOLOGY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34047187652     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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