Digital Imaging Based Screening and Detection of Breast Cancer

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Title

Digital Imaging Based Screening and Detection of Breast Cancer

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Breast cancer affects thousands of (primarily) women and is best treated when detected early. Currently, the primary form of (successful) breast cancer detection is manual palpation, which detects tumors through their high contrast stiffness relative to the surrounding tissue. The DIET system (Digital Image-based Elasto-Tomography) exploits this contrast to create a novel approach to breast cancer detection based on material property reconstruction of harmonic excitation data from the surface...

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Research paper

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Conference paper

Date created

2008

Creator

Chase, Geoff / Hann, C.E. / Brown, R.G. / Peters, A. / Ray, L.E.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2402

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Fields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::291500 Biomedical Engineering::291504 Biomechanical engineering / Fields of Research::320000 Medical and Health Sciences::321000 Clinical Sciences::321022 Radiology and organ imaging / Fields of Research::280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences::280200 Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing::280203 Image processing

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