Development of breast and tumour models for simulation of novel multimodal PEM-UWB technique for detection and classification of breast tumours

Author

Conceicao, Raquel C. ; O´Halloran, M. ; Capote, R.M. ; Ferreira, Cleber S. ; Matela, Nuno ; Ferreira, Hugo A. ; Glavin, M. ; Jones, E. ; Almeida, Paulo

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

2769

Lastpage

2772

Abstract

This paper presents an initial study towards the development of a multimodal breast imaging technique that combines Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) and Ultra WideBand (UWB) radar which has the potential to be complementary in breast cancer detection and classification due to the different types of information provided by the two modalities. The first step in evaluating test the potential of the multimodal PEM-UWB technique is to develop realistic numerical breast and tumour models, which can simultaneously be used for both PEM and UWB.

Keywords

cancer; image classification; mammography; medical image processing; microwave imaging; physiological models; positron emission tomography; tumours; ultra wideband radar; Positron Emission Mammography; breast cancer classification; breast cancer detection; multimodal PEM-UWB technique; multimodal breast imaging technique; numerical breast model; numerical tumour model; ultrawideband radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2028-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551631

Filename

6551631