Improving 3-D Imaging Breast Cancer Diagnosis Systems Using a New Method for Placement of Near-infrared Sources and Detectors

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1 Electrical Engineering Department, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

2 Plasma and Nuclear Fusion Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Electrical Engineering, Arak University of Technology, Arak, Iran

Abstract

The objective of this research is to improve the 3-D imaging system using near-infrared light emission in breast tissue to achieve a more accurate diagnosis of the tumor. Experimental results in this research on this imaging system indicate that a more accurate diagnosis of abnormal areas depends on the location of the sources and detectors. Therefore, an improved location model has been proposed to determine a more suitable placement of sources and detectors. In this article, no human breast cancer samples were examined due to inaccessibility to a 3-D imaging system using near-infrared lights. Since such experiments should be conducted several times to obtain more accurate reconstructed images, the proposed method was evaluated using the optical images reconstruction toolbox of NIRFAST 7.2 in the MATLAB programming environment. The results were then compared with the results of similar articles. The obtained results showed that the proposed placement of sources and detectors can detect abnormal areas with a much lower error rate. Furthermore, the proposed placement of sources and detectors achieved a good result in simultaneously diagnosing two abnormal areas.

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