Segmentation of the Breast Region in Mammograms Using Watershed Transformation

Author

Wei, Kang ; Guangzhi, Wang ; Hui, Ding

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2006

Firstpage

6500

Lastpage

6503

Abstract

The author proposes a new approach for the breast region segmentation for the purpose of reduction of subsequent processing calculation and removal of radiopaque artifacts. The proposed algorithm combines the global thresholding method for a coarse estimation of breast region and morphological operations for exact positioning of the breast boundary. 204 mammographic images were randomly selected from the DDSM mammogram database to test the segmenting algorithm and the segmentation results were evaluated by an experienced radiologist. Nearly 95% of the segmentation results were rated as exact segmentation

Keywords

biological organs; image segmentation; mammography; medical image processing; breast region segmentation; exact breast boundary positioning; global thresholding method; mammograms; morphological operations; radiologist; radiopaque artifact removal; watershed transformation; Biomedical engineering; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Computer aided diagnosis; Delta-sigma modulation; Histograms; Image segmentation; Iterative algorithms; Morphological operations; Morphology; computer-aided diagnosis; image segmentation; mammogram; mathematical morphology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615988

Filename

1615988