A review of breast boundary and pectoral muscle segmentation methods in computer-aided detection/diagnosis of breast mammography

M Moghbel, CY Ooi, N Ismail, YW Hau… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2020 - Springer
Mammography can be considered as the current gold standard for detecting early signs of
breast cancer and is in wide use throughout the world. As confirmed by many studies, breast …

Review of recent advances in segmentation of the breast boundary and the pectoral muscle in mammograms

M Mustra, M Grgic, RM Rangayyan - Medical & biological engineering & …, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents a review of recent advances in the development of methods for
segmentation of the breast boundary and the pectoral muscle in mammograms. Regardless …

Robust automatic breast and pectoral muscle segmentation from scanned mammograms

M Mustra, M Grgic - Signal processing, 2013 - Elsevier
Breast skin–air interface and pectoral muscle segmentation are usually first steps in all CAD
applications on scanned as well as digital mammograms. Breast skin–air interface …

Pectoral muscle segmentation: a review

K Ganesan, UR Acharya, KC Chua, LC Min… - Computer methods and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Mammograms are X-ray images of breasts which are used to detect breast cancer. The
pectoral muscle is a mass of tissue on which the breast rests. During routine mammographic …

A probabilistic approach for breast boundary extraction in mammograms

H Habibi Aghdam, D Puig… - … Mathematical Methods in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The extraction of the breast boundary is crucial to perform further analysis of mammogram.
Methods to extract the breast boundary can be classified into two categories: methods based …

A novel algorithm for pectoral muscle removal and auto-cropping of neoplasmic area from mammograms

M Hanmandlu, AA Khan, A Saha - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presence of pectoral muscle has always been a hindrance in neoplasm detection in
screening mammography. Mediolateral-oblique (MLO) x-ray view of the breast taken while …

A heuristic approach for automated mammogram orientation in computer aided diagnosis

VB Bafna, A Kothari, A Keskar - 2015 7th international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mammograms are the low dose X-ray images of the breast which are used to detect breast
cancer. In Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for cancer detection, orientation of …

Breast boarder boundaries extraction using statistical properties of mammogram

M Tayel, A Mohsen - IEEE 10th INTERNATIONAL …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many image processing techniques developed over the past two decades to help
radiologists in diagnosing breast cancer. At the same time, many studies proven that an …

A fully automated scheme for breast density estimation and asymmetry detection of mammograms

S Tzikopoulos, H Georgiou… - 2009 17th European …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully automated scheme for breast density estimation and asymmetry
detection on mammographic images. Image preprocessing and segmentation techniques …

Mask extraction from manually segmented mias mammograms

M Mustra, M Grgic… - Proceedings ELMAR …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first step in computer aided detection (CAD) in mammography relies on accurate image
segmentation. Testing of CAD algorithms should include comparison with other proposed …