A graph-based segmentation method for breast tumors in ultrasound images

2010 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lee, Suying ^a   Huang, Qinghua ^a   Jin, Lianwen ^a   Lu, Minhua ^b   Wang, Tianfu ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast tumor; Fuzzy C means; Graph theory; Pairwise region comparison predicate; Ultrasound image segmentation

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; BREAST ULTRASOUND; DIFFUSION MODEL; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; GRAPH CONSTRUCTION; GRAPH-BASED; GRAPH-BASED SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; PAIRWISE REGION COMPARISON PREDICATE; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICINE; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77956138781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5517619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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