Detection of circumscribed masses in mammograms using morphological segmentation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue II, 2005, Pages 902-913

  Herredsvela, Jostein ^a   Gulsrud, Thor Ole ^a   Engan, Kjersti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive classification; CAD; Circumscribed masses; Digital mammograms; Mathematical morphology; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; GYNECOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION; CIRCUMSCRIBED MASSES; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844483926     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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