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.
3D Imaging and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. wwang@dmu.ac.uk
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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*