Embedded geometric active contour with shape constraint for mass segmentation

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

Volumn 5702 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 995-1002

  Wang, Ying ^a   Gao, Xinbo ^a   Li, Xuelong ^b   Tao, Dacheng ^c   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Active contour; Embedded level set; Mammogram; Mass segmentation; Shape constraint

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR; EMBEDDED LEVEL SET; MAMMOGRAM; MASS SEGMENTATION; SHAPE CONSTRAINT;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 70349305550     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2_121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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