Segmentation of the breast region in mammograms using active contours

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5150 III, Issue , 2003, Pages 1995-2006

  Wirth, Michael A ^a   Stapinski, Alexei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active contour; Breast region; Mammogram; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BREAST REGION; MAMMOGRAMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0141719917     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.503210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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