Robust linearized image reconstruction for multifrequency EIT of the breast

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1439-1448

  Boverman, Gregory ^a   Kao, Tzu Jen ^b   Kulkarni, Rujuta ^b   Kim, Bong Seok ^d   Isaacson, David ^c   Saulnier, Gary J ^b   Newell, Jonathan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Electrical impedance tomography; Image reconstruction; Inverse problems

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEARIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METALLIZING; NUMBER THEORY; ONCOLOGY; PHOTORESISTS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER SCREENING; BREAST TUMORS; CLINICAL STUDIES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTACTING ELECTRODES; COREGISTERED; DATA SETS; EFFICIENT METHODS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; IMAGING MODALITIES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; JACOBIAN; MODEL MISMATCH; MULTI-FREQUENCY; QUADRATIC FORMS; RENSSELAER; SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS; TOMOSYNTHESIS; X-RAY IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 52649111694     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.922187     Document Type: Article

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