A Review on Breast Imaging Modalities based on Technical Aspects

Abstract

Most common invasive cancer in female is Breast cancer and rarely, it will be affected in men also. From the several studies found that the second leading cause of cancer death is breast cancer in women after lung cancer. The Breast cancer occurs when the cells in the breast grow and divide that cell in an uncontrolled way. Due to this cell creating a mass of tissue in the breast itself is called tumor or mass. Signs of breast cancer are seeing changes of skin on a breast, feeling a lump in a breast and size change of breast etc. If the breast cancer/ mass detected at the early stage or at initial stage, then the survival rate of patient will be improved. In this review, several modalities have been introduced to detect the breast cancer. Furthermore some of the output parameters of these modalities have been investigated. Based on various imaging modalities, were selected around 40 articles by using search engines. And studied the selected papers thoroughly and categorize the results based on modalities which have been used. The used Breast cancer imaging techniques are Mammography, Ultrasound, CT scan, MRI and PET scan etc. The modality selection has been completely depends on the patient’s like current state of cancer tissue and density, age of the patient etc.