Preliminary investigations of chest surface identification algorithms for breast cancer detection

Ultra-wideband sensing and imaging provides perspectives for early-stage breast cancer detection. This paper deals with problems related to the accurate identification of the breast surface. The applicability of the published and recently extended boundary scattering transform (BST) is investigated. In order to reconstruct the whole breast region, the so far planar scanning of the antennas is extended to a spatial scanning. The experimental study is carried out based on metallic test objects and a female dressmaker torso.