Template-based automatic breast segmentation on MRI by excluding the chest region

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Muqing ^a,b   Chen, Jeon Hor ^a,c   Wang, Xiaoyong ^a   Chan, Siwa ^d   Chen, Siping ^b   Su, Min Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Shenzhen University School of Medicine   (China)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast density; Breast mri; Chest body template; Demons algorithm; Model based breast segmentation

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE;

BODY TEMPLATES; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST MRI; BREAST SEGMENTATION; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; INCLUSION AND EXCLUSIONS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; TEMPLATE BASED METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BREAST SEGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; RADIOLOGIST; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THORAX WALL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC WALL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890089951     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4828837     Document Type: Article

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