Imaging for Detecting Breast Cancers Using UWB Radar Technology

Yuta Okuyama; Thanh Pham; Kotaro Yamasue; Chika Sugimoto; Ryuji Kohno

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Imaging for Detecting Breast Cancers Using UWB Radar Technology

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253543,
    author={Yuta Okuyama and Thanh Pham and Kotaro Yamasue and Chika Sugimoto and Ryuji Kohno},
    title={Imaging for Detecting Breast Cancers Using UWB Radar Technology},
    proceedings={Workshop UWBAN},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={UWBAN},
    year={2013},
    month={10},
    keywords={breast cancer ultra wide band radar microwave imaging fdtd methods},
    doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253543}
}

Yuta Okuyama
Thanh Pham
Kotaro Yamasue
Chika Sugimoto
Ryuji Kohno
Year: 2013
Imaging for Detecting Breast Cancers Using UWB Radar Technology
UWBAN
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253543

Yuta Okuyama¹^,*, Thanh Pham¹, Kotaro Yamasue¹, Chika Sugimoto¹, Ryuji Kohno¹

1: Yokohama National University

*Contact email: okuyama-yuuta-wp@ynu.ac.jp

Abstract

Ultra wide band (UWB) microwave imaging has recently been proposed for detecting small malignant breast tumors and is expected to detect breast tumors with safety, com- fort and precision for high resolution of UWB pulse. In this paper, we propose a new imaging method that uses circle ap- proximation to detect the cancer in order for automatically detection without doctors' analysis. Our proposal method measures a radius of a cancer, and decides the center point of cancers on the circumference. The method is simulated by 2D FDTD method. As the result, our method showed higher detection accuracy of a center position and a radius of a circle formed cancer than conventional method.

Keywords: breast cancer ultra wide band radar microwave imaging fdtd methods

Published: 2013-10-29
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253543