期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 167-180出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2019.2931079
关键词
Artifact removal; balanced antipodal Vivaldi antenna (BAVA); breast surface estimation; broadband antenna; dry imaging setup; heterogeneous breast imaging; inverse problem; medical microwave imaging (MWI); phantom; singular value decomposition (SVD); skin backscattering; cascade transmission line; wave-migration
资金
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [PTDC/EEI-TEL/30323/2017, SFRH/BD/115671/2016]
- Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
- Universidade de Lisboa
- FCT/MEC
- FEDER-PT2020 partnership agreement [UID/EEA/50008/2019]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/EEI-TEL/30323/2017, SFRH/BD/115671/2016] Funding Source: FCT
This article demonstrates for the first time, both numerically and experimentally, the feasibility of radar-based microwave imaging of anthropomorphic heterogeneously dense breasts in prone position, requiring no immersion liquid. The dry, contactless approach greatly simplifies the setup, favors patient comfort, and further avoids lengthy sanitation procedures after each exam. We use a radar-type technique with the antennas distributed in cylindrical configuration around the breast phantom. The reflectivity map is reconstructed using a wave-migration algorithm in the frequency domain. This article presents new developed strategies to cope with the challenges of a dry setup, namely increased skin artifact due to the concomitant absence of matching liquid and nonuniform breast shape. We propose an iterative and adaptive algorithm based on singular value decomposition that effectively removes the skin backscattering under the abovementioned conditions. It is compatible with automatic processing, and computationally fast. One of its inputs is the breast three-dimensional surface information, and its distance to the antennas, all obtained automatically from a proposed low-cost procedure based on a webcam. The imaging method is reasonably resilient to the presence of fibroglandular tissues, and to uncertainties of tissue permittivity. Another tackled challenge is the miniaturization of the antenna in air, which is achieved with an optimized balanced antipodal Vivaldi of the same size as counterparts used in dense immersion liquids. Finally, all the building blocks are combined to demonstrate experimentally the overall dry system performance, with very good detection of the tumor at three different positions in the breast, even in low-contrast scenarios.
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