A new approach for breast skin-line estimation in mammograms

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-47

  Sun, Yajie ^a,d,e,f   Suri, Jasjit S ^{a,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n}   Desautels, J E Leo ^b,c   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^b,e  

^a Fischer Medical Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Screen Test Alberta   (Canada)

^d EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^e Eta Kappa Nu ^*

^f IEEE   (United States)

^g NY Academy of Sciences (NYAS)   (United States)

^h Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)   (United States)

ⁱ ACM   (United States)

^j ABI   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^m BioMedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

ⁿ Cardiac Health Inc   (United States)

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Author keywords

Active contours; Breast skin line; Dependency approach; Greedy algorithm; MIAS database; Polyline distance; Stroma edge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744778791     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-006-0023-0     Document Type: Article

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