Removing radiopaque artifacts from mammograms using area morphology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1042-1053

  Wirth, Michael ^a   Lyon, Jennifer ^a   Nikitenko, Dennis ^a   Stapinski, Alexei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area morphology; Feature extraction; Mammograms; Radiopaque artifacts; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; STANDARDS; TUMORS;

AREA MORPHOLOGY; BREAST CANCER; RADIOPAQUE ARTIFACTS; SEGMENTATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644289499     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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