Characterization of mammographic masses using a gradient-based segmentation algorithm and a neural classifier.
Pasquale DeloguMaria Evelina FantacciParnian KasaeAlessandra ReticoPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2007)
Keyphrases
- segmentation algorithm
- neural classifier
- computer aided diagnosis
- automatic segmentation
- image analysis
- region growing
- feature extraction
- breast cancer
- graph cuts
- image segmentation
- artificial neural networks
- computer aided
- superpixels
- unsupervised segmentation
- segmentation method
- input image
- medical images
- active shape model
- object segmentation
- segmentation quality
- homogeneous regions
- segmentation result
- contour detection
- shape prior
- image segmentation algorithm
- segmentation procedure
- mammographic images
- neural network
- watershed algorithm
- segmentation scheme
- medical imaging
- principal component analysis