Breast lesion classification using ultrawideband early time breast lesion response

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2604-2613

  Teo, Jianqi ^a   Chen, Yifan ^b,c   Soh, Cheong Boon ^a   Gunawan, Erry ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^a   Putti, Thomas Choudary ^d,e   Wang, Shih Chang ^f,g  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; early time response; lesion classification; lesion morphology; microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

BENIGN LESION; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST LESION; BREAST SCREENING; CORRELATION OPERATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; KEY PARAMETERS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; LESION CLASSIFICATION; LESION DISCRIMINATION; MICROWAVE IMAGING; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; TIME RESPONSE; ULTRAWIDE-BAND MICROWAVE IMAGING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955460840     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2050423     Document Type: Article

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