Tumour discrimination using ultra-wideband (UWB) : early time tumour response

• Main Author: Ong, Ya Wen.
• Other Authors: Soh Cheong Boon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Medical electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46318
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This report investigates the feasibility of a frequency-domain technique for classifying breast tumours into benign or malignant using only the early-time part of the UWB tumour responses. It reports findings and evaluates the accuracy of the technique by studying how the UWB early-time breast tumour backscatter responses are affected by the morphology of the tumour. The backscatter responses are then processed and classified using appropriate neural networks.