Interactive Segmentation of the Breast Region from Digitized Mammograms with United Snakes
Interactive Segmentation of the Breast Region from Digitized Mammograms with United Snakes
Segmentation of regions of interest in mammograms in a topographic approach
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Fully automated gradient based breast boundary detection for digitized X-ray mammograms
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Breast segmentation with pectoral muscle suppression on digital mammograms
IbPRIA'05 Proceedings of the Second Iberian conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - Volume Part II
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The largest single feature on a mammogram is theskin-air interface, or breast contour. Extraction of thebreast contour is useful for a number of reasons.Foremost it allows the search for abnormalities to belimited to the region of the breast without undueinfluence from the background of the mammogram.Segmentation of the breast-region from thebackground is made difficult by the tapering nature ofthe breast, such that the breast contour lies in betweenthe soft-tissue and the non-breast region. This paperexplores the application of snakes to the problem ofautomatically extracting the breast region inmammograms.