Development and classification of anatomically realistic breast tumour models for microwave imaging: a preliminary study.

Published on 29/05/2023

Ana Catarina Pelicano.Radar-based Microwave Imaging (MWI) is an emerging modality for breast cancer diagnosis. Realistic numerical and physical models of the breast and breast tissues are needed for simulation and experimental testing of MWI prototypes. This work is two-folded: we present a robust semi-automatic pipeline to built anatomically realistic models of breast tumours from Magnetic Resonance (MR) images; and then, we present a preliminary study of three classifiers – Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN) – to differentiate between malignant and benign tumours, based on their morphological features.