Publications

[28] Sánchez-Bayuela DÁ, Ghavami N, Tiberi G, Sani L, Vispa A, Bigotti A, et al. , 2023, A multicentric, single arm, prospective, stratified clinical investigation to evaluate MammoWave’s ability in breast lesions detection. PLoS ONE 18(7): e0288312
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288312

[27] L. Papini et al., Breast Cancer Detection using Machine Learning Approaches on Microwave-based Data, 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Florence, Italy, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133340
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10133340

[26] N. Ghavami et al., “MammoWave Breast Imaging Device: Prospective Clinical Trial Results and AI Enhancement,” 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA), Genoa, Italy, 2023, pp. 341-343, doi: 10.1109/CAMA57522.2023.10352699,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10352699

[25] Álvarez Sánchez-Bayuela, D.; Ghavami, N.; Romero Castellano, C.; Bigotti, A.; Badia, M.; Papini, L.; Raspa, G.; Palomba, G.; Ghavami, M.; Loretoni, R.; et al. A Multicentric, Single Arm, Prospective, Stratified Clinical Investigation to Confirm MammoWave’s Ability in Breast Lesions Detection. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 2100
https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13122100

[24] Rana, S.P.; Dey, M.; Loretoni, R.; Duranti, M.; Ghavami, M.; Dudley, S.; Tiberi, G. Radiation-Free Microwave Technology for Breast Lesion Detection Using Supervised Machine Learning Model, Tomography 2023, 9, 105-129, https://doi.org/10.3390/tomography9010010

[23] L. Papini, M. Badia, D. Álvarez Sánchez-Bayuela, L. Sani, A. Vispa, A. Bigotti, C. Romero Castellano, A. S. Tagliafico, G. Tiberi, Cutting-edge strategies for breast lesions detection through Radiomics in novel microwave imaging technologies: Features’ extraction reliability on microwave images from MammoWave device, 2023 European Congress of Radiology, EPOS Radiologist

[22] G. Tiberi, D. Álvarez Sánchez-Bayuela, N. Ghavami, C. Romero Castellano, T. Milagre, P. O’Brien, M. Ghavami, G. D’Errico, Presenting MammoScreen project: innovative and safe microwave-based imaging technology to make breast cancer screening more accurate, inclusive and female-friendly, 2023 European Congress of Radiology, Session: RPS 702, Advanced applications in breast imaging

[21] D. Álvarez Sánchez-Bayuela, R. Giovanetti González, L. M. Cruz Hernandez, P. M. Aguilar Angulo, M. D. P. Sánchez Camacho González Carrato, A. Rodríguez Sánchez, L. Sani, G. Tiberi, C. R. Castellano, Introducing Microwave Breast Imaging via MammoWave into the clinical routine of a Reference Hospital. Results from a prospective, international clinical trial, 2023 European Congress of Radiology, EPOS Radiologist

[20] D. Álvarez Sánchez-Bayuela, L. M. Cruz Hernandez, P. M. Aguilar Angulo, R. Giovanetti González, M. D. P. Sánchez Camacho González Carrato, A. Rodríguez Sánchez, L. Sani, G. Tiberi, C. R. Castellano, Microwave Breast Imaging via MammoWave: Assessment of young women (under 45) through a prospective study in a reference hospital, 2023 European Congress of Radiology, Session: RPS 702, Advanced applications in breast imaging

[19] S. P. Rana, M. Dey, D. Á. Sánchez-Bayuela, C. Romero Castellano, M. Ghavami, S. Dudley, M. Calabrese, A. S. Tagliafico, G. Tiberi, Breast Lesion Detection Applying Machine Learning on Microwave Imaging: A Retrospective Analysis using MammoWave Clinical Trial Data, 2023 European Congress of Radiology, EPOS Radiologist

[18] B. Khalid et al., 3D Huygens Principle Based Microwave Imaging Through MammoWave Device: Validation Through Phantoms, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 106770-106780, 2022,  doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3211957 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9912648

[17] Dey, M., Rana, S.P., Loretoni, R., Duranti, M., Sani, L., Vispa, A., Raspa, G., Ghavami, M., Dudley, S., Tiberi, G., Automated breast lesion localisation in microwave imaging employing simplified pulse coupled neural network, (2022) PLoS ONE, 17 (7 July), art. no. e0271377, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271377, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271377 

[16] Rana SP, Dey M, Loretoni R, Duranti M, Sani L, Vispa A, Ghavami M, Dudley S, Tiberi G. Radial Basis Function for Breast Lesion Detection from MammoWave Clinical Data. Diagnostics. 2021; 11(10):1930. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11101930

[15] Sani L, Vispa A, Loretoni R, Duranti M, Ghavami N, Alvarez Sánchez-Bayuela D, S Caschera, M Paoli, A Bigotti, M Badia, M Scorsipa, G Raspa, M Ghavami, G Tiberi, Breast lesion detection through MammoWave device: Empirical detection capability assessment of microwave images’ parameters, PLoS ONE 16(4), 2021, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250005

[14] Soumya Prakash Rana, Maitreyee Dey, Riccardo Loretoni, Michele Duranti, Lorenzo Sani, Alessandro Vispa, Mohammad Ghavami, Sandra Dudley, Gianluigi Tiberi, Breast Lesions Identification Employing Radial Basis Function on MammoWave Clinical Data, European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2021, RPS 605

[13] L Sani, A Vispa, N Ghavami, R Loretoni, M Duranti, D Alvarez, S Caschera, M Paoli, A Bigotti, M Badia, M Scorsipa, G Raspa, M Ghavami, G Tiberi, Empirical Assessment of Breast Lesion Detection Capability through an Innovative Microwave Imaging Device, EuCAP 2021, the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

[12] B. Khalesi, B. Sohani, N. Ghavami, M. Ghavami, S. Dudley and G. Tiberi, Free space operating microwave imaging device for bone lesion detection: a phantom investigation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2020, doi: 10.1109/LAWP.2020.3034039. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9240029

[11] B Sohani, J Puttock, B Khalesi, N Ghavami, M Ghavami, S Dudley, G Tiberi, Developing Artefact Removal Algorithms to Process Data from a Microwave Imaging Device for Haemorrhagic Stroke Detection. Sensors, 2020, 20, 5545. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/19/5545

[10] B Sohani, B Khalesi, N Ghavami, M Ghavami, S Dudley, A Rahmani, G Tiberi, Detection of haemorrhagic stroke in simulation and realistic 3-D human head phantom using microwave imaging, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 61, 2020, 102001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102001

[9] B. Khalesi, B Sohani, N Ghavami, M Ghavami, S Dudley, G Tiberi, A Phantom Investigation to Quantify Huygens Principle Based Microwave Imaging for Bone Lesion Detection. Electronics, 2019, 8, 1505. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/12/1505

[8] Soumya Prakash Rana, Maitreyee Dey, Gianluigi Tiberi, Lorenzo Sani, Alessandro Vispa, Giovanni Raspa, Michele Duranti, Mohammad Ghavami & Sandra Dudley, Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Lesion Detection in Microwave Breast Imaging Clinical Data, Scientific reports,9(1), 2019, 10510. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46974-3, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46974-3

[7] Alessandro Vispa, Lorenzo Sani, Martina Paoli, Alessandra Bigotti, Giovanni Raspa, Navid Ghavami, Stefano Caschera, Mohammad Ghavami, Michele Duranti, Gianluigi Tiberi, UWB device for breast microwave imaging: phantom and clinical validations, Measurement, Volume 146, 2019, Pages 582-589, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263224119306116

[6] Sani, N. Ghavami, A. Vispa, M. Paoli, G. Raspa, M. Ghavami, F. Sacchetti, E. Vannini, S. Ercolani, A. Saracini, M. Duranti, G. Tiberi, Novel microwave apparatus for breast lesions detection: Preliminary clinical results, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 52, 2019, Pages 257-263, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2019.04.025

[5] Tiberi, L. Sani, N. Ghavami, M. Paoli, A. Vispa, G. Raspa, E. Vannini, A. Saracini, M. Duranti, Sensitivity Assessment of a Microwave Apparatus for Breast Cancer Detection, European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2018, DOI: 10.1594/ecr2018/C-1390

[4] Sani L, Paoli M, Raspa G, Vispa A, Ghavami N, Tiberi G, Saracini A, Ercolani S, Vannini E, Duranti M, Microwave Apparatus for Testing Breast Integrity based on Huygens Principle: Clinical Validation on 16 subjects, 2017 IET The Loughborough Antennas & Propagation, DOI: 10.1049/cp.2017.0302

[3] Sani L, Paoli M, Raspa G, Ghavami N, Sacchetti F, Saracini A, Ercolani S, Vannini E, Duranti M, Initial Clinical Validation of a Novel Microwave Apparatus for Testing Breast Integrity, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), DOI: 10.1109/IST.2016.7738237

[2] Tiberi G, Raspa R (2018). Patent n. WO2019202464: “Device for microwave measurement of a dielectric discontinuity of a material /Dispositivo per la misurazione a microonde di una discontinuità dielettrica di un materiale”. The patent, granted in Italy, has PCT/IB2019/053074. Such patent is related to a new portable and compact apparatus, which performs microwave imaging. The apparatus can be used both for medical and for industrial application.

[1] Tiberi G, Raspa R (2012). Patent n. WO 2014045181: “Apparatus for testing the integrity of mammary tissues / Apparato per il controllo d’integrità dei tessuti mammari”. The patent has been granted in Italy, China, EU and USA. The device MammoWave is based on such patent.

Selection of UBT co-founders’ scientific publications on microwave imaging

G. Tiberi, N. Ghavami, D. J. Edwards, A. Monorchio, UWB Microwave Imaging of Cylindrical Objects with Inclusions, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Volume: 5 , Issue: 12 Publication Year: 2011 , Page(s): 1440 – 1446, https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-map.2011.0033

Ghavami, N.; Tiberi, G.; Edwards, D.J.; Monorchio, A., UWB Microwave Imaging of Objects With Canonical Shape, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,  Volume: 60 , Issue: 1, Publication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 231 – 239, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6018277

Ghavami, N. ; Tiberi, G. ; Edwards, D.J. ; Monorchio, A., Microwave Imaging Through a Mode-Matching Bessel Functions Procedure, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume: 61 , Issue: 8 , Part: 1, Publication Year: 2013 , Page(s): 2753 – 2760, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6558477

N. Ghavami, G. Tiberi, D. J. Edwards, A. Safaai-Jazi, and A. Monorchio, Huygens Principle Based Imaging of Multilayered Objects with Inclusions, Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 58, 139-149, 2014, http://www.jpier.org/PIERB/pier.php?paper=13121002

N Ghavami, PP Smith, G Tiberi, D Edwards, I Craddock, Non-iterative beamforming based on Huygens principle for multistatic ultrawide band radar: application to breast imaging, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Volume 9, Issue 12, September 2015, p. 1233 – 1240, https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-map.2014.0621