Segmentation of the Breast Region in Mammograms Using Snakes.
Michael A. WirthAlexei StapinskiPublished in: CRV (2004)
Keyphrases
- pectoral muscle
- computer aided diagnosis
- geodesic active contours
- image segmentation
- breast mri
- optimal segmentation
- region segmentation
- breast tissue
- medical images
- grey level
- mammographic images
- watershed transformation
- active contour model
- image regions
- active contours
- segmented images
- computer aided
- segmentation method
- level set
- boundary information
- homogeneous regions
- segmentation algorithm
- textural features
- image analysis
- digital mammograms
- segmentation accuracy
- dce mri
- deformable contour
- gradient vector flow
- segmentation result
- foreground and background
- low contrast
- graph cuts
- input image