A level set evolution strategy in microwave imaging for early breast cancer detection

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 607-618

  Irishina, Natalia ^a   Dorn, Oliver ^a   Moscoso, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early detection of breast tumours; Level set technique; Microwave imaging; Shape reconstruction; Tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; REPAIR; RESTORATION;

A-PRIORI; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCERS; EARLY DETECTION; ELSEVIER (CO); GENERAL (CO); IMPLICIT REPRESENTATION; LEVEL SET (LS); LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; MICROWAVE DATA; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NUMERICA L RESULTS; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESSES; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES;

SET THEORY;

EID: 45049086644     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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