Microwave Breast Cancer Detection (Tomobra): Publications

Detection Algorithms

• Y. Li, E. Porter, A. Santorelli, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Microwave breast cancer detection via cost-sensitive ensemble classifiers: phantom and patient investigation, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 366-376, Jan. 2017.
• Y. Li, A. Santorelli, O. Laforest, and M.J. Coates, Cost-sensitive ensemble classifiers for microwave breast cancer detection, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Sig. Proc. (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, Apr. 2015.
• Y. Li, E. Porter, and M. J. Coates, Imaging-based classification algorithms on clinical trial data with injected tumour responses, in Proc. European Conf. Antennas and Propag. (EuCAP), Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 2015.
• A. Santorelli, Y. Li, E. Porter, M. Popović, and M. Coates, Investigation of classification algorithms for a prototype microwave breast cancer monitor, in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), The Hague, The Netherlands, Apr. 2014.

Early clinical trials

• E. Porter, M.J. Coates, and M. Popović, An early clinical study of time-domain microwave radar for breast health monitoring, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 530-539, Mar. 2016.
• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Breast tissue screening with microwave time-domain radar: initial clinical trials, in Proc. IEEE Conf. Antenna Measurements and Applications, Antibes Juan les Pins, France, Nov. 2014.

Experimental prototype testing with phantoms

• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Time-domain microwave breast cancer detection: extensive system testing with phantoms, Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, vol. 12, pp. 131-143, 2013.
• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, S. Winkler, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Time-domain microwave cancer screening: optimized pulse shaping applied to realistically shaped breast phantoms, in Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International , Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, D. Coulibaly, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Time-domain microwave breast screening system: testing with advanced realistic breast phantoms, in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Prague, Czech Republic, Mar. 2012.
• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, A. Bourdon, D. Coulibaly, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Time-domain microwave breast cancer detection: experiments with comprehensive glandular phantoms, in Proc. Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2011.

Experimental prototype design

• K. El Hallaoui, A. Santorelli, M.J. Coates, and M. Popović A miniaturized clock generator for a time-domain microwave breast health monitoring device, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, Montreal, Canada, Jul. 2016.
• E. Porter, E. Kirshin, A. Santorelli, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Time-domain multistatic radar system for microwave breast screening, IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 229 - 232, Feb. 2013.
• E. Porter, A. Santorelli, M.J. Coates and M. Popović, An experimental system for time-domain microwave breast imaging, in Proc. Eur. Conf. Antennas and Prop. (EuCAP), Rome, Italy, Apr. 2011.

Overview article

• S. Winkler, E. Porter, A. Santorelli, M. Coates, and M. Popović, Recent progress in ultra-wideband microwave breast cancer detection, in Proc. Int. Conf. Ultra-wide Band (ICUWB), Syracuse, NY, USA, Sept. 2012.

Phantom construction

• E. Porter, J. Fakhoury, R. Oprisor, M.J. Coates and M. Popović, Improved tissue phantoms for experimental validation of microwave breast cancer detection in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Barcelona, Spain, Mar. 2010.

Fusing microwave radar and microwave-induced thermoacoustics

• E. Kirshin, B. Oreshkin, G. Zhu, M. Popović, and M. Coates, Microwave radar and microwave-induced thermoacoustics: dual-modality approach for breast cancer detection, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 60, issue 2, pp. 354-360, 2013.
• E. Kirshin, B. Oreshkin, G. Zhu, M.J. Coates and M. Popović, Fusing microwave radar and microwave-induced thermoacoustics for breast cancer detection, in Proc. Int. Symp. Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, IL, USA, Mar. 2011.

Numerical breast models and simulation experiments

• E. Kirshin, G. Zhu, M.J. Coates and M. Popović, Evaluation of the mono-static microwave radar algorithms for breast imaging, in Proc. Eur. Conf. Antennas and Propagation, Rome, Italy, Apr. 2011.
• G. Zhu, B. Oreshkin, E. Porter, M.J. Coates, and M. Popović, Numerical breast models for commercial FDTD simulators, in Proc. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Berlin, Germany, Mar. 2009.