Fusing digital-breast-tomosynthesis and nearfield-radar-imaging information for a breast cancer detection algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents a computational simulation of a hybrid Digital-Breast-Tomosynthesis (DBT) and microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) technique for detecting breast cancer. The DBT image is used to obtain a background distribution of the heterogeneous tissues in the breast, which is then used by the NRI algorithm to successfully detect cancerous tissues in the breast, in spite of the low dielectric contrast between cancerous and normal glandular/fibro-connective tissues.