Development of axilla phantoms to aid breast cancer staging via sentinel lymph node detection

Author

Conceicao, Raquel C. ; Oliveira, Luis Guilherme ; Banks, Brie ; Fear, Elise

Author_Institution

Inst. de Biofisica e Eng. Biomed. (IBEB), Univ. de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

524

Abstract

In this paper we present a method for creating a numerical phantom of the underarm region which captures the heterogeneous anatomical structure and the differences in the electric properties between the constituent tissues of the underarm region. Specifically, the model is intended to identify and segment the sentinel nodes, which are axillary lymph nodes. Assessment of these nodes is often performed during surgical procedures used to treat breast cancer.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological tissues; cancer; image segmentation; medical image processing; microwave imaging; phantoms; surgery; axilla phantoms; axillary lymph nodes; breast cancer staging; constituent tissues; electric properties; heterogeneous anatomical structure; node assessment; node segmentation; numerical phantom; sentinel lymph node detection; surgical procedures; underarm region; Breast cancer; Dielectrics; Image segmentation; Lymph nodes; Microwave theory and techniques; Axilla Numerical Phantoms; Breast cancer diagnosis; Microwave Imaging; Segmentation; Sentinel Node;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901808

Filename

6901808