Abstract
Clinicians face many challenges when diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Biomechanical modeling of the breast is a field of research that aims to assist clinicians in addressing some of these challenges using a physics-based approach. This includes helping to colocate information between various medical imaging modalities that are used to identify tumors, and providing the ability to predict the location of these tumors during different treatment procedures. This review describes the state of the art in the field of modeling breast biomechanics, highlighting methods that have been used for constructing biomechanical models of the breast, and the constitutive relations that are typically used to describe the behavior of its different tissues. Examples of how these models have been used to address clinical challenges are also presented. Clinical adoption of such modeling techniques has significant potential for reducing instances of misdiagnosed breast cancers, while also helping to improve clinical treatment of patients.
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