“…Different spectroscopic techniques have been used to characterize human breast cancer tissue. Techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [ 1 ], infrared spectroscopy [ 2 , 3 , 4 ], and Raman spectroscopy [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ] have been proven to be powerful methods in characterizing and understanding breast tissue. From a chemical point of view, biological specimens consist of complex mixtures of heterogeneous classes of molecules (e.g., water, lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids).…”