Title | Fusing Microwave Radar and Microwave-induced Thermoacoustics for breast cancer detection |
Publication Type | Conference Proceedings |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Kirshin, E., B. N. Oreshkin, K. G. Zhu, M. Popovic, and M. J. Coates |
Conference Name | International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging |
Date Published | 03/2011 |
Conference Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
Keywords | breast cancer de- tection, hypotheses testing, Microwave imaging, sensor fusion, UWB |
Abstract | Microwave-based techniques for breast tumour detection rely on the inherent electrical difference between malign and healthy tissue in the microwave range. Microwave-radar and microwave-induce thermoacoustic methods both struggle when the dielectric contrast between the tumorous and background tissues is relatively small. In this work, we propose a detection technique that uses a hypothesis testing framework to fuse the information provided by these two sensor modalities and hence provide more reliable detection results in low-contrast, high-clutter environments when compared to the results that either of the techniques would provide alone. |
Refereed Designation | Refereed |