Pectoral muscle segmentation: A review

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-57

  Ganesan, Karthikeyan ^a   Acharya, U Rajendra ^a,b   Chua, Kuang Chua ^a   Min, Lim Choo ^a   Abraham, K Thomas ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c Singapore Anti Tuberculosis Association (SATA) CommHealth   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Automated techniques; Breast cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Digital mammography; Pectoral muscle segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDIO-LATERAL OBLIQUE VIEWS; PECTORAL MUSCLE SEGMENTATIONS; PIXEL INTENSITIES;

AUTOMATION; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; X RAY SCREENS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PECTORAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84875229934     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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