A combined method for automatic identification of the breast boundary in mammograms

2012 5th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 121-125

  Chen, Zhili ^a,b   Zwiggelaar, Reyer ^b  

^a SHENYANG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast boundary; mammography; pectoral muscle; segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BREAST BOUNDARY; HISTOGRAM THRESHOLDING; MEDIO-LATERAL OBLIQUE VIEWS; PECTORAL MUSCLE SEGMENTATIONS; PECTORAL MUSCLES; SEGMENTATION RESULTS;

AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDGE DETECTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; X RAY SCREENS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84886383815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2012.6513144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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