Broadband dual linear polarized antenna for statistical detection of breast cancer

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3576-3580

  Woten, Douglas A ^a   El Shenawee, Magda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Breast cancer detection; Broad band antenna

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; DATA PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TUMORS; VEGETATION;

ANSOFT HFSS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCERS; BREAST TUMORS; BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; BROADBAND PLANAR ANTENNAS; DUAL POLARIZED; LINEAR POLARIZATIONS; MAJOR AXIS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; STATISTICAL DETECTIONS; TUMOR DETECTIONS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 57149146589     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2005545     Document Type: Article

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