Breast Contour Detection with Stable Paths

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2008

Autores

Jaime S Cardoso (Autor) FEUP; Ricardo Sousa (Autor) Outra; Luis F Teixeira (Autor) REIT; Cardoso, MJ (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Páginas: 439-452

International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

Funchal, PORTUGAL, JAN 28-31, 2008

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 4 Citações

Scopus - 6 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Biotecnologia ambiental

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-004-2P6

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92219-3_33

Abstract (EN): Breast cancer conservative treatment (BCCT), due to its proven oncological safety, is considered, when feasible, the gold standard of breast cancer treatment. However, aesthetic results are heterogeneous and difficult to evaluate in a standardized way, due to the lack of reproducibility of the subjective methods usually applied. The objective assessment methods, considered in the past as being less capable of evaluating all aspects of BCCT, are nowadays being preferred to overcome the drawbacks of the subjective evaluation. A computer-aided medical system was recently developed to objectively and automatically evaluate the aesthetic result of BCCT. In this system, the detection of the breast contour on the patient's digital photograph is a necessary step to extract the features subsequently used in the evaluation process. In this paper an algorithm based on the shortest path oil a graph is proposed to detect automatically the breast contour. The proposed method extends an existing semi-automatic algorithm for the same purpose. A comprehensive comparison with manually-drawn contours reveals the strength of the proposed method.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 14