Tumor response estimation in radar-based microwave breast cancer detection

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2801-2811

  Kurrant, Douglas J ^a   Fear, Elise C ^a   Westwick, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation; Microwave imaging; Pattern classification

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTIONS; EARLY STAGES; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; OPTIMAL VALUES; PARAMETRIC FUNCTIONS; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERED FIELDS; SIMULATED DATUMS; TISSUE SENSING ADAPTIVE RADARS; TUMOR RESPONSES;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVES; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS;

TUMORS;

ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 58149234152     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.921164     Document Type: Article

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