An improved GVF snake based breast region extrapolation scheme for digital mammograms

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4505-4510

  Liu, Chen Chung ^a   Tsai, Chung Yen ^b   Tsui, Ta Shan ^b   Yu, Shyr Shen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast; Edge map adjusting; Extrapolation; GVF snake; Mammogram

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS ACCURACY; BINARIZATION PROCESSING; BREAST; BREAST BORDER; BREAST MASS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; EDGE MAP; ERROR FUNCTION; EXTRAPOLATION SCHEMES; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW SNAKES; GVF SNAKE; MAMMOGRAM; MEAN ERRORS; MEDIAN FILTER; MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR; MORPHOLOGICAL EROSION; PROCESSING SPEED; PROCESSING STAGE; SCALE DOWN;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; EXTRAPOLATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 82255183131     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.136     Document Type: Article

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