Segmentation of Breast Regions in Mammogram Based on Density: A Review
Nafiza SaidinHarsa Amylia Mat SakimUmi Kalthum NgahIbrahim Lutfi ShuaibPublished in: CoRR (2012)
Keyphrases
- breast tissue
- pectoral muscle
- textural features
- computer aided diagnosis
- mammographic images
- image regions
- segmented images
- medical images
- digitized mammograms
- region merging
- breast cancer
- digital mammograms
- segmentation method
- watershed algorithm
- region segmentation
- automatically segmented
- textured regions
- segmentation algorithm
- segmentation scheme
- region growing
- segmenting images
- image segmentation
- digital mammography
- accurate segmentation
- breast mri
- input image
- connected regions
- outdoor scenes
- tissue classification
- discriminating power
- initial segmentation
- density distribution
- image segmentations
- segmented regions
- segmentation result
- piecewise constant
- homogeneous regions
- segmentation accuracy
- intensity images
- quantitative evaluation
- medical imaging
- multiscale
- pixel classification
- foreground and background
- texture analysis
- edge detection
- level set
- object segmentation
- computer aided detection
- image segments
- figure ground
- image features
- histogram analysis
- spatial coordinates
- image analysis
- region of interest