Microwave imaging for early breast cancer detection using a shape-based strategy

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1143-1153

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; APRIORI; ARBITRARY NUMBER; EARLY BREAST CANCER; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST TUMORS; FIBROGLANDULAR; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; IMPLICIT REPRESENTATION; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET TECHNIQUE; LEVEL-SET TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE DATA; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERMITTIVITY PROFILES; SHAPE BASED; SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION; SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; STATIC PERMITTIVITY; TISSUE TYPES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; ONCOLOGY; PERMITTIVITY; RESTORATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MODEL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 66449098937     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2012398     Document Type: Article

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