A technique to predict the time-of-arrival of a tumor response corrupted by clutter

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3520-3525

  Kurrant, Douglas J ^a   Fear, Elise C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); MEDICAL IMAGING; RADAR CLUTTER; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TUMORS;

EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; TARGET RESPONSE; TUMOR RESPONSE;

DIAGNOSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

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

EID: 61849154231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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