Breast skin-line segmentation using contour growing

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

Volumn 4478 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 564-571

  Martí, Robert ^a   Oliver, Arnau ^a   Raba, David ^a   Freixenet, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONTOUR FOLLOWERS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABNORMALITY DETECTION; BREAST SKIN-LINE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 38049132766     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72849-8_71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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