Automated breast profile segmentation for ROI detection using digital mammograms

Proceedings of 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 87-92

  Nagi, Jawad ^a   Abdul Kareem, Sameem ^a   Nagi, Farrukh ^b   Khaleel Ahmed, Syed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mammogram segmentation; Pectoral muscle; Region of interest; Seeded region growing

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; MAMMOGRAM SEGMENTATION; PECTORAL MUSCLE; REGION OF INTEREST; SEEDED REGION GROWING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE; X RAY SCREENS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955421172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECBES.2010.5742205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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