A two-stage method for lesion segmentation on digital mammograms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yuan, Yading ^a   Giger, Mapyellen L ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Jamieson, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Level set; Mass lesion segmentation; Region based active contour

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LESION SEGMENTATION; LEVEL SET; MASS LESION SEGMENTATION; REGION-BASED ACTIVE CONTOUR;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33745157898     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652840     Document Type: Conference Paper

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