Automatic diagnosis of masses by using level set segmentation and shape description

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2528-2531

  Oliver, Arnau ^a   Torrent, Albert ^a   Lladó, Xavier ^a   Martí, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mammography; Mass diagnosis; Shape; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; CHARACTERISATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; LEVEL SET ALGORITHM; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; MALIGNANT LESION; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MASS DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS; REGION INFORMATION; REGION OF INTEREST; SHAPE; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; ZERNIKE MOMENTS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 78149489653     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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