Preliminary results from an EIT breast imaging simulation system.
An electrical impedance tomography (EIT) simulation system for breast imaging has been developed using impedance data from a previous study and a finite-element model (FEM). This system has the functionality to construct various models of the breast, image the boundary voltages developed from any injection schema and provide parametric Cole-Cole modelling. Simulations indicate that breast carcinoma can be imaged and multi-frequency Cole-Cole dispersion data can be extracted. This is intended as the first stage towards providing an artificial intelligence based system capable of producing clinically relevant analytical data.
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3D Imaging and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. wwang@dmu.ac.uk
Tang
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McCormick
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Dong
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D000465:Algorithms; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017097:Electric Impedance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014054:Tomography / Q000379:methods*