Extraction of the breast cancer tumor in mammograms using genetic active contour

ICBPE 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 30-33

  Rad, GholamAli Rezaei ^a   Kashanian, Mehdi ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active contour; Genetic algorithm; Image segmentation; Snake

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL (ACM); ACTIVE CONTOURS; APPLIED (CO); BREAST CANCERS; CURVATURE (SORI); DIFFERENT DOMAINS; ENERGY MINIMIZATION PROCEDURE; IMAGE ENERGY; INTERNAL ENERGIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN (LOG); PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

DIESEL ENGINES; EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

HEALTH;

EID: 46249085880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBPE.2006.348548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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