Efficient microwave breast imaging technique using parallel finite difference time domain and parallel genetic algorithms

Author

Sabouni, Abas ; Xu, Meilian ; Noghanian, Sima ; Thulasiraman, Parimala ; Pistorius, Stephen

Author_Institution

Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg

fYear

2007

fDate

9-15 June 2007

Firstpage

2176

Lastpage

2179

Abstract

This paper addresses the nonlinear tomographic image reconstruction problem with particular emphasis on developing efficient numerical algorithms for early breast cancer detection using parallel algorithms to enhance both the speed and quality of the recovered images. Our goal is to illustrate an effective method of microwave imaging for early stage breast cancer detection, using parallel finite-difference time domain method (PFDTD) and parallel genetic algorithms (PGAs) optimization, by using message passing interface (MPI) library.

Keywords

biomedical imaging; cancer; finite difference time-domain analysis; genetic algorithms; image reconstruction; microwave imaging; parallel algorithms; message passing interface; microwave breast imaging; nonlinear tomographic image reconstruction; parallel algorithms; parallel finite difference time domain parallel genetic algorithms; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Electronics packaging; Finite difference methods; Genetic algorithms; Image reconstruction; Microwave imaging; Microwave theory and techniques; Parallel algorithms; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0877-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0878-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2007.4395959

Filename

4395959