Comparison of Balloon Snake and GVF Snake in segmenting masses from breast ultrasound images

2nd International Conference on Computer Research and Development, ICCRD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 505-509

  Jumaat, Abdul Kadir ^a   Rahman, Wan Eny Zarina W A ^a   Ibrahim, Arsmah ^a   Mahmud, Rozi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Balloon Snake; Breast ultrasound image; Gradient Vector Flow; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; ACTUAL MASS; BALLOON SNAKE; BREAST ULTRASOUND; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; SOLID MASS;

BALLOONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77955214988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCRD.2010.109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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