Thursday,  February 14, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 210 • 5 of 40 •  Other Editions

SDSU faculty develops software for new cancer screening method

• BROOKINGS, S.D. - Women may one day have a more accurate, less expensive means of detecting breast cancer, thanks in part to software developed by two South Dakota State University computer science professors.
• Microwave tomography imaging, or MTI, has the potential to produce an image capable of finding cancer, even in women with dense breast tissue, at a fraction of the cost of current techniques, said professor Sung Shin.  Since 2010, Shin and assistant professor Wei Wang have been working on this project with scientists from The Electronics and

A new breast imaging technology called microwave tomography can make cancer screening more comfortable and less expensive.  The patient simply lies on a special table placing her breast in a compartment filled with gel, and then the image is taken by the technician.  Human testing is being done in South Korea, while the software is being developed by two South Dakota State University computer science professors.

Telecommunications Research Institute and Chung Nam University in Daejeon, South Korea.
• The government-owned research institute, which holds the patent on the microwave tomography machine, is developing its capabilities as a cancer screening tool, Shin explained.  The experimental procedure was approved for use on human subjects in Korea last summer and the first 15 patients were screened in the fall.  Each patient was evaluated using MTI, magnetic resonance imaging-- or MRI--and mammography. 
• On this portion of the international collaborative project, Shin is working with Dr.

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