A hybrid active contour model for mass detection in digital breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Peters, Gero ^a,b   Muller, Serge ^b   Grosjean, Bénédicte ^b   Bernard, Sylvain ^b   Bloch, Isabelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; CAD; Detection; Level sets; Mammography; Tomosynthesis; X ray

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; HYBRID COMPUTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CLINICAL DATA; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTIONS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; LEVEL SETS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 35248867069     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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