Application of the No-Sampling Linear Sampling Method to Breast Cancer Detection

作者：Bozza Giovanni^*; Brignone Massimo; Pastorino Matteo

来源：IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2010, 57(10): 2525-2534.

DOI：10.1109/TBME.2010.2055059

• Breast cancer detection
• inverse scattering
• linear sampling method
• medical imaging
• microwave imaging

In this paper, the no-sampling linear sampling method is applied to microwave imaging of cancerous tissues in realistic models of female breast obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The adopted formulation is based on a modified version of the far-field equation, sensitive to anomalies with respect to the healthy breast. The healthy configuration is taken into account through the related Green's function, which is numerically computed. The adopted imaging technique is assessed against the inspection of tumors of several positions and sizes in noisy environments. Moreover, a numerical analysis of the robustness of the method is performed when the model parameters used for evaluating the Green's function are not exactly known.

• 出版日期2010-10