Objective assessment of the aesthetic outcomes of breast cancer treatment: Toward automatic localization of fiducial points on digital photographs

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Udpa, Nitin ^a   Sampat, Mehul P ^a   Kim, Min Soon ^a   Reece, Gregory P ^b   Markey, Mia K ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast econstruction; Clinical digital photography; Quantitative image analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAPLACE EQUATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY;

BREAST RETRACTION ASSESSMENTS; CLINICAL DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL POINTS; GAUSSIAN FILTERS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 35248883119     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.712236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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