Performance evaluation of a region growing procedure for mammographic breast lesion identification.
Giulia RabottinoArianna MencattiniMarcello SalmeriFederica CaselliRoberto LojaconoPublished in: Comput. Stand. Interfaces (2011)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- breast tissue
- mammographic images
- breast cancer
- image segmentation
- computer aided diagnosis
- segmentation algorithm
- segmentation method
- computer aided detection
- edge detection
- edge information
- color image segmentation
- pet images
- vessel segmentation
- image analysis
- brain mri
- region competition
- pectoral muscle
- region merging
- active contour model
- seeded region growing
- boundary estimation
- medical images
- textural features
- discriminating power
- digitized mammograms
- watershed transform
- homogeneous regions
- automatic segmentation
- final segmentation
- region of interest
- pairwise
- region homogeneity
- image processing