A novel approach for removal of pectoral muscles in digital mammogram

S Sreedevi, E Sherly - Procedia Computer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Removal of noise and pectoral muscles are the two important pre-processing steps in CAD
system for the diagnosis of breast cancer. This work combines Robust Outlyingness Ratio …

Computer-aided identification of the pectoral muscle in digitized mammograms

KS Camilus, VK Govindan, PS Sathidevi - Journal of digital imaging, 2010 - Springer
Mammograms are X-ray images of human breast which are normally used to detect breast
cancer. The presence of pectoral muscle in mammograms may disturb the detection of …

Pectoral muscle identification in mammograms

KS Camilus, VK Govindan… - Journal of applied clinical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In most of the approaches of computer‐aided detection of breast cancer, one of the
preprocessing steps applied to the mammogram is the removal/suppression of pectoral …

K2. Automatic pectoral muscle boundary detection in mammograms using eigenvectors segmentation

H Abdellatif, TE Taha, OF Zahran… - 2012 29th national …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mammograms are X-ray images, which are used in breast cancer detection. Automatic
pectoral muscle removal on Medio-Lateral Oblique-view (MLO) of mammograms is an …

[图书][B] Minimum spanning trees and active contours for identification of the pectoral muscle in screening mammograms

M Bajger, F Ma, MJ Bottema - 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image segmentation based on minimum spanning trees (MST) is used to identify the
pectoral muscle in screening mammograms. The segmentation found using the MST is used …

Pectoral muscle removal techniques: A review

H Boulehmi, H Mahersia… - 2022 19th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast lesions early detection is the only key to reduce breast cancer mortality rate and
increase recovering chances. Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can assist …

Automatic breast pectoral muscle segmentation on digital mammograms using morphological watersheds

K Taifi, R Ahdid, M Fakir, A Elbalaoui… - 2017 14th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The segmentation of mammograms plays a major role in isolating areas which can be
subject of tumor. The identification of these zones is generally done in three steps: pectoral …

The case of multi-hop peer-to-peer implementation of mobile social applications

P Antoniadis, C Courcoubetis - 2006 International Conference …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we consider issues related to the design of mobile social software in a multi-
hop peer-to-peer environment. We believe that by enabling multi-hop peer-topeer …

Validation of graph theoretic segmentation of the pectoral muscle

F Ma, M Bajger, JP Slavotinek, MJ Bottema - Digital Mammography: 8th …, 2006 - Springer
Two graph theoretic methods are used in conjunction with active contours to segment the
pectoral muscle in 82 screening mammograms. To validate the method, the boundaries are …

[PDF][PDF] Segmentação do Músculo Peitoral em Mamografias Utilizando Operadores Morfológicos

IM de Carvalho - 2007 - 201.73.1.103
Além de apresentar uma elevada incidência no Brasil, o câncer de mama tem aumentado
em número nos últimos anos. Para 2006, estimam-se 48.930 novos casos, classificando-se …