Semiautomatic contour detection of breast lesions in ultrasonic images with morphological operators and average radial derivative function

Physics Procedia

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 373-380

  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

Average radial derivative; Breast ultrasound; Morphological operators; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BREAST ULTRASOUND; BREAST ULTRASOUND IMAGES; DERIVATIVE FUNCTIONS; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; LESION SEGMENTATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77951605000     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2010.01.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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