Microwave Medical Imaging: Potentialities and Limitations of a Stochastic Optimization Technique

Caorsi, Salvatore and Massa, Andrea and Pastorino, Matteo and Rosani, Andrea (2004) Microwave Medical Imaging: Potentialities and Limitations of a Stochastic Optimization Technique. UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)

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    Abstract

    An approach based on a stochastic optimization technique is proposed for medical microwave imaging. The approach is based on the integral equations of the electromagnetic inverse scattering. After discretization of the continuous model, the problem solution is recast as a global optimization problem. A functional is costructed on the basis of a Markov random field model and minimized by a genetic algorithm. In order to reduce the computational load, a model of the cross section of the biological body is considered. In this way, the investigation area is limited by separating the scattering contribution of a fixed region under test from those of other parts of the model. Some preliminary results concerning a two-dimensional model of a human thorax are reported. Such a biological structure is inspected by the proposed tomographic approach in order to detect and localize the presence of and "object" modeling a tumor.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC661 Electromagnetic Theory
    Q Science > QC Physics (General) > QC760 Electromagnetism
    Report Number: DIT-04-079
    Repository staff approval on: 01 Sep 2004

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