Active region segmentation of mammographic masses based on texture, contour and shape features

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2652, Issue , 2003, Pages 478-485

  Martí, Joan ^a   Freixenet, Jordi ^a   Muñoz, Xavier ^a   Oliver, Arnau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXELS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MAMMOGRAPHIC MASS; SHAPE FEATURES; SHAPE INFORMATION; SUPERVISED METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35248858007     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-44871-6_56     Document Type: Review

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