Pectoral muscle detection in mammograms based on polar coordinates and the shortest path

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

Authors

Jaime S Cardoso (Author) FEUP; Domingues, I (Author) Other; Amaral, I (Author) Other; Moreira, I (Author) Other; Passarinho, P (Author) Other; Comba, JS (Author) Other; Correia, R (Author) Other; Cardoso, MJ (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Pages: 4781-4784

2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Buenos Aires, 31 August 2010 through 4 September 2010

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Authenticus ID: P-018-0W4

DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2010.5626634

Abstract (EN): The automatic detection and segmentation of the pectoral muscle in the medio-lateral oblique view of mammograms is essential for further analysis of breast anormalies. However, it is still a very difficult task since the sizes, shapes and intensity contrasts of pectoral muscles change greatly from image to image. In this paper, an algorithm based on the shortest path on a graph is proposed to automatically detect the pectoral muscle contour. To overcome the difficulties of searching for the path between a lateral and the top margins of the image, this is first transformed, using polar coordinates. In the transformed image, the muscle boundary in amongst the shortest paths between the top and the bottom rows. A comprehensive comparison with manually-drawn contours reveals the strength of the proposed method. © 2010 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4