Progress in cancer diagnosis with ultrasound

Author

Reid, J.M. ; Goldberg, B.B. ; Shankar, P.M. ; Forsberg, F. ; Bilgutay, N. ; Bloomfield, P. ; Cohen, F. ; Donohue, K. ; Halpern, E. ; Lewin, P.A. ; Onaral, B. ; Petropoulu, A. ; Piccoli, C. ; Tretiak, O.J. ; Wheatley, Malcolm

Author_Institution

Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2557

Abstract

Despite successes in using ultrasound to characterize tissues at many sites in the body, the diagnosis of cancer, especially in the female breast, has remained challenging. Besides devising methods to analyze the data, there are difficulties with collecting data from enough patients to validate a variety of new methods, and in coping with changes in the hardware. We have been conducting an integrated effort for nine years that has minimized these difficulties and is approaching success.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; mammography; reviews; 9 y; cancer diagnosis with ultrasound; contrast materials; data analysis methods; female breast; hardware changes; medical diagnostic imaging; primary diagnoses; ultrasound imaging; Breast; Cancer; Collaboration; Electrical equipment industry; Hardware; Hospitals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radio frequency; Signal processing; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017301

Filename

1017301