Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2058-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162204
