Mammographic mass segmentation: Embedding multiple features in vector-valued level set in ambiguous regions

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1903-1915

  Wang, Ying ^a   Tao, Dacheng ^b,d   Gao, Xinbo ^a   Li, Xuelong ^c   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnose; Mammograms; Mass segmentation; Relaxed shape constraint; Vector valued level set

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSE; MAMMOGRAMS; MASS SEGMENTATION; RELAXED SHAPE CONSTRAINT; VECTOR VALUED;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DROP BREAKUP; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; VECTORS; X RAY SCREENS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79957465857     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.08.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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