Breast cancer detection in highly dense numerical breast phantoms using time reversal

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the detection of breast cancer using two-dimensional slices of realistic numerical phantoms employing time reversal microwave imaging. We used maximum-likelihood estimation coupled with time reversal technique to detect and estimate the location of tumor using FDTD based breast phantoms that contain dense fibroglandular tissue clutter. We show that time reversal maximum-likelihood estimation can detect and accurately localize tumors even in highly dense breasts where the dielectric contrast between healthy dense breast tissue and cancerous lesions is quite low without requiring any contrast enhancing agents.

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“…However premature diagnosis and treatment is considered the best hope for surviving from the disease [2][3][4]. In the last decade, various methods have been used for early cancer diagnosis and still most of them remain with some limitations [1,2,4]. To complement those methods, we make use of microwaves imaging [1,[5][6][7], that has the potential ability to be affordable, harmless [8] and available in a wide range of industrial, military and medical use [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”