A simple method for automatically locating the nipple on mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 483-494

  Chandrasekhar, Ramachandran ^a   Attikiouzel, Yianni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Automatic nipple location; Computer vision; Image processing; Mammograms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NIPPLE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BREAST; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; NIPPLES; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; IMAGE PROCESSING; X RAYS;

AUTOMATIC NIPPLE LOCATION; MAMMOGRAMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031240171     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640738     Document Type: Article

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