Contour tracing for segmentation of mammographic masses

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5299-5315

  Elter, Matthias ^a   Held, Christian ^a   Wittenberg, Thomas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149324178     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/18/004     Document Type: Article

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