Segmentation technique for detecting suspect masses in dense breast digitized images as a tool for mammography CAD schemes

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1333-1337

  Schiabel, Homero ^a   Santos, Vivian T ^a   Angelo, Michele F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Mammography; Masses segmentation

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BREAST CANCERS; BREAST IMAGES; DIGITIZED IMAGES; DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAMS; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; LABELING PROCEDURES; MASSES SEGMENTATION; MORTALITY RATES; PRE-PROCESSING; PROCESSING SCHEMES; REGIONS OF INTERESTS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 56749165404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1363996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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