Morphological operators on the segmentation of breast ultrasound images

2009 Pan American Health Care Exchanges - PAHCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 67-71

  Gomez W ^a   Leija, L ^a   Pereira, W C A ^b   Infantosi, A F C ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast ultrasound; Morphological operators; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BREAST ULTRASOUND; BREAST US; DERIVATIVE FUNCTIONS; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

HEALTH CARE; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77951020590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PAHCE.2009.5158367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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