A fully automatic algorithm for segmentation of the breasts in DCE-MR images

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3146-3149

  Giannini, Valentina ^a   Vignati, Anna ^b   Morra, Lia ^d   Persano, Diego ^d   Brizzi, Davide ^e   Carbonaro, Luca ^e   Bert, Alberto ^d   Sardanelli, Francesco ^e   Regge, Daniele ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c Imaging Laboratory   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Evangelico Valdese   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; DYNAMIC CONTRAST; INHOMOGENEITIES; LESION DETECTION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MR IMAGES; PECTORAL MUSCLES; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84903857721     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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