An Improved Technique to Predict the Time-of-Arrival of a Tumor Response in Radar-Based Breast Imaging

Author

Kurrant, Douglas J. ; Fear, Elise C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Volume

56

Issue

4

fYear

2009

fDate

4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1200

Lastpage

1208

Abstract

Radar-based microwave imaging has been proposed as a complementary modality for early-stage breast cancer screening. This paper presents an algorithm that may be used to accurately predict the time-of-arrival (TOA) of a tumor response contained in sample data acquired from a small number of antennas in a realistic scenario. The TOA information may be used by many of the existing radar-based methods to detect and localize a tumor response. The robustness of the algorithm is demonstrated with data generated from realistic numerical breast models.

Keywords

biomedical imaging; cancer; microwave imaging; radar imaging; tumours; early-stage breast cancer screening; radar-based microwave imaging; realistic numerical breast models; time-of-arrival; tumor response; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Clutter; Data mining; Feature extraction; Microwave imaging; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar scattering; Receiving antennas; Student members; Testing; Breast cancer; classification; microwave imaging; time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation; Algorithms; Breast Neoplasms; Early Detection of Cancer; Humans; Microwaves; Models, Biological;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9294

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBME.2008.2011914

Filename

4760233