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Advancing Early Detection of Multifocal Breast Cancer with Electrical Impedance Tomography

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper, a series of experiments using the existing Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) system was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of EIT for early breast cancer detection. The agar-based breast phantom was used for the experiments. In the initial testing with a single tumor, the EIT setup successfully identified the location of the tumor. The system was further tested with two and three tumors and was able to differentiate multiple tumors with precision. In a control test, in which no tumor was present, the system was able to distinguish between normal and abnormal tissue conductivity, confirming its ability to detect abnormalities. The results indicate that the EIT imaging setup is a promising tool for early breast cancer diagnosis.

DOI: 10.1109/icmac64768.2025.11003259

Authors: Mahnoor Sagheer, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Ali Imran, Qammer H. Abbasi

Institutions: Information Technology University, University of the Punjab, University of Glasgow

Language: English

Topic: Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Awards: APP17382: EPSRC-SFI: Active intelligent Reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless COMmunications (AR-COM), CHEDDAR: Communications Hub for Empowering Distributed clouD computing Applications and Research - TMF uplift, CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research