Detection of masses in mammograms using region growing controlled by multilevel thresholding.
Jayasree ChakrabortySudipta MukhopadhyayVeenu SinglaNiranjan KhandelwalRangaraj M. RangayyanPublished in: CBMS (2012)
Keyphrases
- region growing
- multilevel thresholding
- image segmentation
- mammogram images
- breast cancer
- segmentation method
- edge information
- edge detection
- mammographic images
- segmentation algorithm
- particle swarm optimization algorithm
- region merging
- digital mammograms
- computer aided diagnosis
- active contour model
- particle swarm optimization
- seed selection
- boundary estimation
- color image segmentation
- detection algorithm
- multiscale
- region competition
- seeded region growing
- image processing
- seed points
- gray level
- markov random field
- image analysis
- genetic algorithm