Digital mammogram spiculated mass detection and spicule segmentation using level sets

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4979-4984

  Ball, John E ^a,b   Bruce, Lori Mann ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Digital mammography; Image segmentation; Level sets; Spiculations; Stellate lesions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; LEVEL SETS; SPICULATIONS; STELLATE LESIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57649232799     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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