Minimum spanning trees and active contours for identification of the pectoral muscle in screening mammograms

Proceedings of the Digital Imaging Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 323-329

  Bajger, Mariusz ^a   Ma, Fei ^a   Bottema, Murk J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MINIMUM SPANNING TREES (MST); PECTORAL MUSCLES; PIXELS; SCREENING MAMMOGRAMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33846953534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2005.1578145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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