Topographic representation based breast density segmentation for mammographic risk assessment

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1993-1996

  Chen, Zhili ^a,c   Denton, Erika R E ^b   Zwiggelaar, Reyer ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SHENYANG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

breast density; hierarchical representation; mammography; segmentation; topographic map

Indexed keywords

BI-RADS; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST TISSUES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DENSE REGION; DENSITY CLASSIFICATIONS; GEOMETRIC MOMENT; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; GLOBAL STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHIC; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; TOPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; UPPER LEVEL SETS;

FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MAPS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE;

EID: 84875829991     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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