Automated breast-region segmentation in the axial breast MR images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 55-64

  Milenković, Jana ^a   Chambers, Olga ^b   Marolt Mušič, Maja ^c   Tasič, Jurij Franc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Breast MRI; Breast region segmentation; Cost function; Shortest path search; Tunable Gabor filter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COST FUNCTIONS; DECISION MAKING; GABOR FILTERS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL SYSTEMS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEMS; BREAST MRI; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; REGION SEGMENTATION; SHORTEST PATH SEARCHES; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST EXAMINATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTY; THORAX WALL; VALIDATION STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

BREAST; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84928162207     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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