Comparison between GVF snake and ED snake in segmenting microcalcifications

Author

Yasiran, Siti Salmah ; Jumaat, Abdul Kadir ; Manaf, Mazani ; Ibrahim, Arsmah ; Zarina, W.A.R.W.E. ; Malek, Aminah ; Laham, Mohamed Faris ; Mahmud, Rozi

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. Teknol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

597

Lastpage

601

Abstract

Snake, active contour or deformable active contour has been widely used in medical image segmentation area. In this paper, comparison between Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) snake and Enhanced Distance (ED) snake in segmenting microcalcifications is carried out. The performance is measured based on actual area of the average percentage difference traced by expert radiologists. Results obtained shows that the values of average percentage difference for the GVF and ED snake are 4.3% and 6.68% respectively. These results indicate that the GVF snake has better performance with 95.7%.

Keywords

cancer; image segmentation; mammography; medical image processing; ED snake; GVF snake; average percentage difference; deformable active contour; enhanced distance snake; gradient vector flow snake; medical image segmentation area; microcalcification segmentation; Active contours; Databases; Equations; Graphical user interfaces; Image segmentation; Mathematical model; Software; Enhanced Distance Snake; Gradient Vector Flow Snake; Mammogram; Microcalcifications; Segmentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2058-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162204

Filename

6162204