Review and analysis of tumour detection and image quality analysis in experimental breast microwave sensing

T Reimer, S Pistorius - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review evaluates the methods used for image quality analysis and tumour detection in
experimental breast microwave sensing (BMS), a developing technology being investigated …

Breast lesion detection through MammoWave device: Empirical detection capability assessment of microwave images' parameters

L Sani, A Vispa, R Loretoni, M Duranti, N Ghavami… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
MammoWave is a microwave imaging device for breast lesions detection, which operates
using two (azimuthally rotating) antennas without any matching liquid. Images, subsequently …

Pathway to demonstrating clinical efficacy of microwave breast imaging: Qualitative and quantitative performance assessment

E Porter, D O'Loughlin - … , RF and Microwaves in Medicine and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last five years alone, there has been an increasing number of operational microwave
breast imaging systems used in clinical trials, with increasingly large and diverse patient …

An open-access experimental dataset for breast microwave imaging

T Reimer, J Krenkevich… - 2020 14th European …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave imaging has shown potential for breast cancer screening, but further evaluation
of the clinical viability of breast microwave imaging (BMI) systems is required. Previous …

An optimization-based approach to radar image reconstruction in breast microwave sensing

T Reimer, S Pistorius - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Breast microwave sensing (BMS) has been studied as a potential technique for cancer
detection due to the observed microwave properties of malignant and healthy breast tissues …

Weighted delay-and-sum beamformer for breast cancer detection using microwave imaging

SAS Karam, D O'Loughlin, BL Oliveira, M O'Halloran… - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
Many similarities exist between ultrasound and microwave imaging, however, ultrasound is
typically performed with a handheld transducer whereas antennas are placed around the …

Privacy-preserving time-series medical images analysis using a hybrid deep learning framework

Z Yue, S Ding, L Zhao, Y Zhang, Z Cao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Time-series medical images are an important type of medical data that contain rich temporal
and spatial information. As a state-of-the-art, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) algorithms …

Microwave bone imaging: A preliminary investigation on numerical bone phantoms for bone health monitoring

B Amin, A Shahzad, M O'Halloran, MA Elahi - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microwave tomography (MWT) can be used as an alternative modality for monitoring human
bone health. Studies have found a significant dielectric contrast between healthy and …

Experimental validation of microwave imaging prototype and DBIM-IMATCS algorithm for bone health monitoring

B Amin, A Shahzad, M O'halloran, B Mcdermott… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evaluation of the microwave imaging (MWI) prototype and imaging algorithms on
experimental bone phantoms is a precursor step before clinical testing for measuring in vivo …

Performance analysis of an aperture-coupled thz antenna for diagnosing breast cancer

A Gupta, V Kumar, D Garg, MH Alsharif, A Jahid - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The most important technique for exposing early-stage breast cancer is terahertz imaging. It
aids in lowering the number of breast cancer-related fatalities and enhancing the quality of …