Computer-aided detection and diagnosis of breast cancer

CJ Vyborny, ML Giger, RM Nishikawa - Radiologic Clinics of North America, 2000 - Elsevier
The field of radiology has been a major beneficiary of the digital computer revolution at the
end of the twentieth century. The sophisticated cross-sectional imaging modalities on which …

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 …

Preprocessing of breast cancer images to create datasets for deep-CNN

AR Beeravolu, S Azam, M Jonkman… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in Australia with crude incidence rates
increasing drastically from 62.8 at ages 35-39 to 271.4 at ages 50-54 (cases per 100,000 …

Automated breast profile segmentation for ROI detection using digital mammograms

J Nagi, SA Kareem, F Nagi… - 2010 IEEE EMBS …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mammography is currently the most effective imaging modality used by radiologists for the
screening of breast cancer. Finding an accurate, robust and efficient breast profile …

Breast segmentation with pectoral muscle suppression on digital mammograms

D Raba, A Oliver, J Martí, M Peracaula… - Pattern Recognition and …, 2005 - Springer
Previous works on breast tissue identification and abnormalities detection notice that the
feature extraction process is affected if the region processed is not well focused. Thereby, it …

Automatic detection of breast border and nipple in digital mammograms

AJ Méndez, PG Tahoces, MJ Lado, M Souto… - Computer methods and …, 1996 - Elsevier
Advances in the area of computerized image analysis applied to mammography may have
very important practical applications in automatically detecting asymmetries (masses …

Method and system for segmenting desired regions in digital mammograms

SK Rogers, P Amburn, TS Berkey… - US Patent …, 2000 - Google Patents
US6091841A - Method and system for segmenting desired regions in digital mammograms -
Google Patents US6091841A - Method and system for segmenting desired regions in digital …

Segmentation of regions of interest in mammograms in a topographic approach

BW Hong, BS Sohn - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel method for the segmentation of regions of interest in
mammograms. The algorithm concurrently delineates the boundaries of the breast …

Digital mammography, computer-aided diagnosis, and telemammography

SA Feig, MJ Yaffe - Radiologic Clinics of North America, 1995 - Elsevier
There is good evidence'? 74. 76, 84 that early detection of breast cancer can reduce
mortality from the disease. X-ray film-screen mammography is shown to have greater …

Method, computer program product, and system for the automated analysis of lesions in magnetic resonance, mammogram and ultrasound images

K Gilhuijs, ML Giger, U Bick - US Patent 6,317,617, 2001 - Google Patents
(54) METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM(56) References Cited PRODUCT, AND SYSTEM
FOR THE US PATENT DOCUMENTS AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF LESIONS IN MAGNETIC …