Initial classification of breast tumour phantoms using a UWB radar prototype

Author

Conceicao, Raquel C. ; Medeiros, Hudson ; O´Halloran, M. ; Rodriguez-Herrera, Diego ; Flores-Tapia, Daniel ; Pistorius, Stephen

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2013

fDate

9-13 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

720

Lastpage

723

Abstract

This study presents the first experimental results using a pre-clinical UWB prototype imaging system for tumour classification based on the shape of tumours. A database of 13 benign and 13 malignant tumours with average diameters between 13 and 40 mm was created using dielectrically-representative tissue-mimicking material. Classification of benign and malignant tumour models of the experimental data was completed with Linear Discriminant Analysis and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis classifiers.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomimetics; image classification; mammography; medical image processing; microwave imaging; phantoms; physiological models; prototypes; tumours; ultra wideband technology; UWB radar prototype; average tumour diameter; benign tumour database; benign tumour model classification; breast tumour phantom classification; dielectrically-representative tissue-mimicking material; linear discriminant analysis classifier; malignant tumour database; malignant tumour model classification; preclinical UWB prototype imaging system; quadratic discriminant analysis classifier; size 13 mm to 40 mm; tumour shape; Breast; Cancer; Microwave imaging; Radar imaging; Shape; Tumors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5705-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2013.6632339

Filename

6632339