A new data acquisition design for breast cancer detection system

Modern mammography screening for breast cancer detection adopted computed tomography techniques and multi-dimensional (i.e. 3D or 4D) Tomosynthesis to improve cancer detection rate. These new trends demand novel SoC designs that can accommodate the increasing volume of raw data from multi-dimensional (i.e. 3D or 4D) Tomosynthesis with comparable X-ray dose. The current paper introduces two core technologies: Adaptive Digital Estimator (ADE) and Self-detecting sensory array based on Compressive Sensing (CS) concept and inter-reset sampling techniques. First of its kind, the new designs can simultaneously achieve high speed data acquisition and reduce data amount by an average of 40%.