• DocumentCode
    568333
  • Title

    New method for breast tumor tracking

  • Author

    Seppi, E. ; Zentai, G. ; Partain, L. ; Richmond, M. ; Pavlyuchkova, R. ; Anderson, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Ginzton Technol. Center, Varian Med. Syst., Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    16-17 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    442
  • Lastpage
    445
  • Abstract
    Mammographic imaging is a very well-known and useful method to discover cancer lesions in the breast at an early stage. Treatment options are better than at later stages, when the tumor is larger and frequently has already spread to other body organs (metastasis). However, detection is difficult in dense breasts. Often mammographers prescribe biopsy, because they cannot visually predict the probability that the lesion is benign or malignant. A new method is proposed in this article, which may determine the malignancy of the tumor without invasive biopsy.
  • Keywords
    cancer; mammography; medical image processing; target tracking; tumours; breast tumor tracking method; cancer lesion discovery; dense breasts; mammographic imaging; tumor malignancy determination; Breast; Detectors; Energy resolution; Image edge detection; Lesions; Photonics; CdTe detectors; biopsy; breast CT; breast tumors; mammography; oncology; photon counting detectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Manchester
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1776-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IST.2012.6295597
  • Filename
    6295597