Title : 
Comparison of thresholding methods for breast tumor cell segmentation
         
        
            Author : 
Jeong, Hye-Jin ; Kim, Tac-Yoon ; Hwang, Hae-Gil ; Choi, Hyun-Ju ; Park, Hyung-Seon ; Choi, Heung-Kook
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Comput. Eng., Inje Univ., Gimhae, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Breast cancer was the most commonly occurring malignancy among women, so study of breast cancer are important. This paper is preprocessing of breast tumor research for segmentation method. There are many thresholding methods. Many thresholding methods developed but they have different result in each image. So we need automatic thresholding method because manual operating is tedious, time-consuming. This study compared result of 6 automatic thresholding method and 1 semi-supervised thresholding method in breast tumor image. Otsu´s method and Iterative selection are good result in breast tumor cell images. So we expected results using Otsu´s method and Iterative Selection to help for determining and diagnosing the breast tumor.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; cellular biophysics; image segmentation; iterative methods; mammography; medical image processing; tumours; Iterative selection; Otsu method; automatic thresholding method; breast cancer; breast tumor cell image; breast tumor cell segmentation; breast tumor diagnosis; image preprocessing; image thresholding method; malignancy; semisupervised thresholding; Breast cancer; Breast tumors; Equations; Filters; Image segmentation; Iterative methods; Metastasis; Microscopy; Morphology; Pixel;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Enterprise networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 2005. HEALTHCOM 2005. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8940-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/HEALTH.2005.1500489