Alternative Breast Imaging Four Model-Based Approaches /

• Main Authors: Paulsen, Keith D. (Author), Meaney, Paul M. (Author), Gilman, Larry C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 778
• Subjects: Computer science.; Radiology.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Biomedical engineering.; Computer Science.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Ultrasound.; Imaging / Radiology.; Biomedical Engineering.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.

Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques. An enabling force behind this progress has been the (so far) exponentially increasing power of compute...

Table of Contents:

• Four Alternative Breast Imaging Modalities
• Computational Framework
• Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Theory
• Magnetic Resonance Elastrography: Experimental Validation and Performance Optimazation
• Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: Theory
• Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: Translation to Clinic
• Microwave Imaging: A Model-Based Approach
• Microwave Imaging: Hardware and Results
• Near Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging: Theory
• Near Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging: Translation to Clinic
• Statistical Methods for Alternative Imaging Modalities in Breast Cancer Clinical Research.