Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7211-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017301
