Towards Enhancing Skin Reflection Removal and Image Focusing Using a 3-D Breast Surface Reconstruction Algorithm

Author

Sarafianou, M. ; Craddock, I.J. ; Henriksson, Tommy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Volume

61

Issue

10

fYear

2013

Firstpage

5343

Lastpage

5346

Abstract

Suppressing skin reflection is vital for successful tumor detection in radar breast imaging systems. In this communication, a novel skin reflection removal (SRR) algorithm is presented based on a previously-proposed breast surface reconstruction algorithm. This skin reflection removal algorithm is validated using numerical MRI-derived breast models. This communication also investigates how the same skin location information can be used to enhance the delay-and-sum algorithm.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; image reconstruction; medical image processing; numerical analysis; object detection; radar imaging; surface reconstruction; 3D breast surface reconstruction algorithm; SRR algorithm; delay-and-sum algorithm enhancement; image focusing; numerical MRI-derived breast models; radar breast imaging systems; skin location information; skin reflection removal enhancement; tumor detection; Breast cancer detection; microwave radar-based imaging; skin reflection suppression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2013.2271494

Filename

6548068