Overview

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 computers, which has made it practical to explore fundamentally new approaches. In particular, what our group terms ""model-based"" modalities-which produce tissue property images from data using nonlinear, iterative numerical modeling techniques-have become increasingly feasible. Alternative Breast Imaging: Four Model-Based Approaches explores our research on four such modalities, particularly with regard to imaging of the breast: (1) MR elastography (MRE), (2) electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), (3) microwave imaging spectroscopy (MIS), and (4) near infrared spectroscopic imaging (NIS). Chapter 1 introduces the present state of breast imaging and discusses how our alternative modalities can contribute to the field. Chapter 2 looks at the computational common ground shared by all four modalities. Chapters 2 through 10 are devoted to the four modalities, with each modality being discussed first in a theory chapter and then in an implementation-and-results chapter. The eleventh and final chapter discusses statistical methods for image analysis in the context of these four alternative imaging modalities. Imaging for the detection of breast cancer is a particularly interesting and relevant application of the four imaging modalities discussed in this book. Breast cancer is an extremely common health problem for women; the National Cancer Institute estimates that one in eight US women will develop breast cancer at least once in her lifetime. Yet the efficacy of the standard (and notoriously uncomfortable) early-detection test, the x-ray mammogram, has been disputed of late, especially for younger women. Conditions are thus ripe for the development of affordable techniques that replace or complement mammography. The breast is both anatomically accessible and small enough that the computing power required to model it, is affordable.

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Author:   Keith D. Paulsen ,  Paul M. Meaney ,  Larry Gilman
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Volume:   778
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781441936165

ISBN 10:   1441936165
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   06 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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From the reviews: This well-organized and constructed work explores ... . There are 11 chapters' beginning with an excellent overview of the four approaches ... . It is, by itself, a very nice review of the topic, and is useful as a guide ... . It is all the more useful because it compares ... in a meaningful context. ... the use of models and simulation, physical and mathematical throughout the work, is impressive ... . This text would be best used in graduate-level courses ... . (A.G. Greenburg, Computing Reviews, February, 2005)

From the reviews: This well-organized and constructed work explores ! . There are 11 chapters' beginning with an excellent overview of the four approaches ! . It is, by itself, a very nice review of the topic, and is useful as a guide ! . It is all the more useful because it compares ! in a meaningful context. ! the use of models and simulation, physical and mathematical throughout the work, is impressive ! . This text would be best used in graduate-level courses ! . (A.G. Greenburg, Computing Reviews, February, 2005)

From the reviews: This well-organized and constructed work explores ... . There are 11 chapters, beginning with an excellent overview of the four approaches ... . It is, by itself, a very nice review of the topic, and is useful as a guide ... . It is all the more useful because it compares ... in a meaningful context. ... the use of models and simulation, physical and mathematical throughout the work, is impressive ... . This text would be best used in graduate-level courses ... . (A.G. Greenburg, Computing Reviews, February, 2005)

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