DocumentCode
2373523
Title
Mass segmantation on mammograms using active contours
Author
Tunali, I. ; Kilic, E.
Author_Institution
Bilgisayar Muhendisligi Bolumu, Ondokuz Mayis Univ., Samsun, Turkey
fYear
2013
fDate
24-26 April 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
In this paper segmentation of benign and malignant masses found on mammograms were segmented. After adding low valued pixels outside of mammogram, Chan-Vese active contour algorithm with a new stopping criteria was implemented. As a result, lacking segmentation was prevented. Experiments were made on 60 mammograms which had masses with different shape, size and visibility taken from Digital Database for Screening Mammography(DDSM). Proposed method had a Area Overlap Ratio of %75.1.
Keywords
image segmentation; mammography; medical image processing; Chan-Vese active contour algorithm; DDSM; area overlap ratio; benign mass segmentation; digital database for screening mammography; malignant mass segmentation; mammogram; Active contours; Cancer; Capacitance-voltage characteristics; Computational modeling; Delta-sigma modulation; Histograms; Image segmentation; Mass segmentation; active contours; mammogram;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013 21st
Conference_Location
Haspolat
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-5562-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4673-5561-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SIU.2013.6531221
Filename
6531221
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