Extracting the pectoral muscle in screening mammograms using a graph pyramid

Fie Ma; Mariusz Bajger; Murk Bottema

Extracting the pectoral muscle in screening mammograms using a graph pyramid

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A graph based method is introduced to segment the pectoral muscles in screening mammograms. An adaptive pyramid is used to segment the mammogram into a number of components. Components forming the pectoral muscle are identified based on position, intensity, and shape. The boundary of the union of these components forms an initial boundary that is refined via an adaptive deformable contour model. The method is tested on 83 medio-lateral oblique mammograms from the Mini-MIAS database. Segmentation results are evaluated in terms of the proportion of correctly assigned pixels. Performance compares well with existing methods based on Hough transform and on Gabor
wavelets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing
Editors	Brian C Lovell, Anthony J Maeder
Place of Publication	St Lucia, Queensland
Publisher	The University of Queensland
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0-9580255-3-3
Publication status	Published - Feb 2005
Event	APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing - Duration: 21 Feb 2005 → …

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Extracting the pectoral muscle in screening mammograms using a graph pyramid. / Ma, Fie; Bajger, Mariusz ; Bottema, Murk.
Proceedings of the APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing. ed. / Brian C Lovell; Anthony J Maeder. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland, 2005.

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