Research Article

Hardware Acceleration of Beamforming in a UWB Imaging Unit for Breast Cancer Detection

Table 2

Maximum difference of energy values with respect to ideal computation for three approximation cases.

Calibration Tumor Pos. Max error
Approx-I Approx-II Approx-III

Low 26.78% 23.28% 0.25%
IDEALMed 14.64% 4.94% 0.07%
Deep 17.97% 6.70% 0.16%

Low 33.60% 25.02% 0.44%
SKARMed 15.61% 8.67% 0.16%
Deep 30.68% 34.46% 0.48%