Big data analytics in healthcare

A Belle, R Thiagarajan… - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly expanding field of big data analytics has started to play a pivotal role in the
evolution of healthcare practices and research. It has provided tools to accumulate, manage …

Review of breast screening: Toward clinical realization of microwave imaging

A Modiri, S Goudreau, A Rahimi, K Kiasaleh - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave imaging (MI) technology has come a long way to introduce a noninvasive,
inexpensive, fast, convenient, and safe screening tool for clinical breast monitoring …

High-resolution microwave breast imaging using a 3-D inverse scattering algorithm with a variable-strength spatial prior constraint

LM Neira, BD Van Veen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave inverse scattering is an exploratory imaging modality with potential for several
clinical breast imaging applications, including density evaluation, cancer detection, and …

Microwave imaging of breast tumor using time-domain UWB circular-SAR technique

D Oloumi, RSC Winter, A Kordzadeh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores the competency of the time domain ultra-wideband (UWB)-circular
synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) to image the breast and detect tumors. The image …

Fast frequency-based multistatic microwave imaging algorithm with application to brain injury detection

A Zamani, AM Abbosh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multistatic microwave imaging technique is presented for fast diagnosis of medical
emergencies pertaining to brain injuries. The frequency-based imaging method utilizes …

Incorporation of ultrasonic prior information for improving quantitative microwave imaging of breast

N Abdollahi, D Kurrant, P Mojabi… - IEEE Journal on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Structural information derived via ultrasound is utilized as prior information for quantitative
microwave imaging. The structural information is extracted from ray-based ultrasound …

Integrating prior information into microwave tomography Part 1: Impact of detail on image quality

D Kurrant, A Baran, J LoVetri, E Fear - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The authors investigate the impact that incremental increases in the level of detail
of patient‐specific prior information have on image quality and the convergence behavior of …

Integration of microwave tomography with magnetic resonance for improved breast imaging

PM Meaney, AH Golnabi, NR Epstein… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Breast magnetic resonance imaging is highly sensitive but not very specific for the
detection of breast cancer. Opportunities exist to supplement the image acquisition with a …

Ultra wideband compact near‐field imaging system for breast cancer detection

M Jalilvand, X Li, L Zwirello… - IET Microwaves, Antennas …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, an efficient near‐field imaging system using miniaturised bowtie antennas is
proposed for the three‐dimensional (3D) detection of breast tumours. To ensure good …

3-D microwave tomography using the soft prior regularization technique: Evaluation in anatomically realistic MRI-derived numerical breast phantoms

AH Golnabi, PM Meaney, SD Geimer… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Fusion of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) breast images with microwave
tomography is accomplished through a soft prior technique, which incorporates spatial …