Microwave breast imaging: Clinical advances and remaining challenges

D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Microwave breast imaging has seen significant academic and commercial
development in recent years, with four new operational microwave imaging systems used …

Review and analysis of tumour detection and image quality analysis in experimental breast microwave sensing

T Reimer, S Pistorius - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review evaluates the methods used for image quality analysis and tumour detection in
experimental breast microwave sensing (BMS), a develo** technology being investigated …

Pathway to demonstrating clinical efficacy of microwave breast imaging: Qualitative and quantitative performance assessment

E Porter, D O'Loughlin - … , RF and Microwaves in Medicine and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last five years alone, there has been an increasing number of operational microwave
breast imaging systems used in clinical trials, with increasingly large and diverse patient …

Microwave Breast Imaging: Experimental tumour phantoms for the evaluation of new breast cancer diagnosis systems

BL Oliveira, D O'Loughlin, M O'Halloran… - Biomedical Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new set of tumour phantoms for the experimental evaluation of Microwave
Breast Imaging (MBI) as a method to diagnose breast cancer is presented. The phantoms …

Microwave breast imaging using a dry setup

JM Felicio, JM Bioucas-Dias, JR Costa… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article demonstrates for the first time, both numerically and experimentally, the
feasibility of radar-based microwave imaging of anthropomorphic heterogeneously dense …

Detectability of breast tumors in excised breast tissues of total mastectomy by IR-UWB-radar-based breast cancer detector

H Song, S Sasada, N Masumoto… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this paper is to investigate the detectability of breast tumors having various
histological types in excised breast tissues of total mastectomy. The tumor images measured …

Sensitivity and specificity estimation using patient-specific microwave imaging in diverse experimental breast phantoms

D O'Loughlin, BL Oliveira, A Santorelli… - … on Medical Imaging, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many new clinical investigations of microwave breast imaging have been published in
recent years. Trials with over one hundred participants have indicated the potential of …

Open-source software for microwave radar-based image reconstruction

The Microwave Radar-based Imaging Toolbox (MERIT) project aims to produce a robust,
consistent framework for microwave imaging signal processing and reconstruction. Open …

Weighted delay-and-sum beamformer for breast cancer detection using microwave imaging

SAS Karam, D O'Loughlin, BL Oliveira, M O'Halloran… - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
Many similarities exist between ultrasound and microwave imaging, however, ultrasound is
typically performed with a handheld transducer whereas antennas are placed around the …

Microwave bone imaging: A preliminary investigation on numerical bone phantoms for bone health monitoring

B Amin, A Shahzad, M O'Halloran, MA Elahi - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microwave tomography (MWT) can be used as an alternative modality for monitoring human
bone health. Studies have found a significant dielectric contrast between healthy and …