An integrated method for breast mass segmentation in digitized mammograms

摘要：

Breast mass segmentation is often required as a significant step for monitoring and quantifying breast cancer. In this paper, we present an efficient approach for breast mass segmentation. The proposed method is composed of two steps. Firstly, the marker controlled watershed algorithm is applied to mammograms as an initial segmentation. Then, the contour line obtained by watershed is regarded as the initial curve and a level set evolution without reinitialization is utilized for the further segmentation. This integrated approach yields a robust and precise segmentation. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated using extensive experiments on the MIAS and DDSM databases.

关键词： Breast mass segmentation Marker controlled watershed Mammograms Level set evolution without reinitialization

作者: Ming Zhang Yingying Chai Jianzhong Wang

作者单位: School of Computer science and information technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2011 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Control(2011年IEEE第三届高端计算机控制国际会议 ICACC2011)

会议地点: 哈尔滨

会议语种:英文

页码: 214-218

在线出版日期: 2011-01-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）