Breast border extraction and pectoral muscle detection using wavelet decomposition

IEEE EUROCON 2009, EUROCON 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1426-1433

  Mustra, Mario ^a   Bozek, Jelena ^a   Grgic, Mislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Breast border; Digital mammography; Pectoral muscle; Segmentation; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL ASYMMETRIES; BIT DEPTH; BREAST ABNORMALITIES; BREAST BORDER; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HYBRID METHOD; LESION DETECTION; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PECTORAL MUSCLES; SCREEN-FILM MAMMOGRAPHIES;

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MUSCLE; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70449670633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURCON.2009.5167827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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