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  • Title: Machine learning aided diagnosis of hepatic malignancies through in vivo dielectric measurements with microwaves.
    Author: Yilmaz T, Kılıç MA, Erdoğan M, Çayören M, Tunaoğlu D, Kurtoğlu İ, Yaslan Y, Çayören H, Arkan AE, Teksöz S, Cancan G, Kepil N, Erdamar S, Özcan M, Akduman İ, Kalkan T.
    Journal: Phys Med Biol; 2016 Jul 07; 61(13):5089-5102. PubMed ID: 27321132.
    Abstract:
    In the past decade, extensive research on dielectric properties of biological tissues led to characterization of dielectric property discrepancy between the malignant and healthy tissues. Such discrepancy enabled the development of microwave therapeutic and diagnostic technologies. Traditionally, dielectric property measurements of biological tissues is performed with the well-known contact probe (open-ended coaxial probe) technique. However, the technique suffers from limited accuracy and low loss resolution for permittivity and conductivity measurements, respectively. Therefore, despite the inherent dielectric property discrepancy, a rigorous measurement routine with open-ended coaxial probes is required for accurate differentiation of malignant and healthy tissues. In this paper, we propose to eliminate the need for multiple measurements with open-ended coaxial probe for malignant and healthy tissue differentiation by applying support vector machine (SVM) classification algorithm to the dielectric measurement data. To do so, first, in vivo malignant and healthy rat liver tissue dielectric property measurements are collected with open-ended coaxial probe technique between 500 MHz to 6 GHz. Cole-Cole functions are fitted to the measured dielectric properties and measurement data is verified with the literature. Malign tissue classification is realized by applying SVM to the open-ended coaxial probe measurements where as high as 99.2% accuracy (F1 Score) is obtained.
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