• DocumentCode
    2191274
  • Title

    Automatic Segmentation for Breast Skin-line

  • Author

    Zhang, Zhiyong ; Lu, Joan ; Yip, Yau Jim

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Comput. & Eng., Univ. of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    June 29 2010-July 1 2010
  • Firstpage
    1599
  • Lastpage
    1604
  • Abstract
    The accurate segmentation of breast in mammograms is critical for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer. The challenges of breast segmentation come from tissue superimposition, low contrast and low visible breast boundary, noise areas and artifacts. In this research, a novel Automatic Breast Segmentation (ABS) approach was proposed. The experiment results showed that the proposed ABS approach can segment breast boundary reliably and accurately.
  • Keywords
    cancer; image segmentation; mammography; medical computing; automatic breast segmentation approach; breast skin line; computer aided diagnosis; mammogram; tissue superimposition; Breast cancer; Computers; Filtering; Image segmentation; Noise; Variable speed drives; breast cancer; mammograms; segmentation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bradford
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7547-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CIT.2010.283
  • Filename
    5577938