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Breast lesion detection through MammoWave device: Empirical detection capability assessment of microwave images’ parameters
- Source :
- PLOS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e0250005 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- MammoWave is a microwave imaging device for breast lesions detection, which operates using two (azimuthally rotating) antennas without any matching liquid. Images, subsequently obtained by resorting to Huygens Principle, are intensity maps, representing the homogeneity of tissues’ dielectric properties. In this paper, we propose to generate, for each breast, a set of conductivity weighted microwave images by using different values of conductivity in the Huygens Principle imaging algorithm. Next, microwave images’ parameters, i.e. features, are introduced to quantify the non-homogenous behaviour of the image. We empirically verify on 103 breasts that a selection of these features may allow distinction between breasts with no radiological finding (NF) and breasts with radiological findings (WF), i.e. with lesions which may be benign or malignant. Statistical significance was set at prule-of-thumb allowing breast assessment is introduced using a binary score S operating on an appropriate combination of features. Performances of such rule-of-thumb are evaluated empirically, obtaining a sensitivity of 74%, which increases to 82% when considering dense breasts only.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
02 engineering and technology
Diagnostic Radiology
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
0302 clinical medicine
Breast Tumors
Medicine and Health Sciences
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Medical Personnel
Breast
Materials
Multidisciplinary
medicine.diagnostic_test
Physics
Electromagnetic Radiation
Radiology and Imaging
Middle Aged
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Professions
Oncology
Area Under Curve
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Benign Breast Conditions
Female
Algorithms
Microwave Imaging
Research Article
Mammography
Adult
Matching (graph theory)
Imaging Techniques
Science
Materials Science
Breast Neoplasms
Research and Analysis Methods
Sensitivity and Specificity
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Diagnostic Medicine
Breast Cancer
Radiologists
medicine
Microwave Radiation
Humans
Sensitivity (control systems)
Aged
Receiver operating characteristic
business.industry
Homogeneity (statistics)
Cancers and Neoplasms
020206 networking & telecommunications
Pattern recognition
Insulators
Intensity (physics)
Microwave imaging
ROC Curve
People and Places
Women's Health
Population Groupings
Dielectrics
Artificial intelligence
business
Microwave
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a0fd1a0026cf2d36b7e3684b452b8439
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250005