Fully automatic breast segmentation in 3D breast MRI

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1024-1027

  Wang, Lei ^a   Platel, Bram ^a   Ivanovskaya, Tatyana ^b   Harz, Markus ^a   Hahn, Horst K ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast MRI; breast segmentation; Hessian filter; region growing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; AVERAGE DISTANCE; BOUNDARY SEGMENTATION; BREAST BOUNDARY; BREAST MRI; BREAST SEGMENTATION; HESSIAN FILTER; IMAGING PROTOCOL; LESION DETECTION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MR IMAGES; REGION GROWING; SHEET-LIKE STRUCTURE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864838990     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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