Breast contour detection for the aesthetic evaluation of breast cancer conservative treatment

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2007

Authors

Cardoso, JS (Author) FEUP; Cardoso, MJ (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Advances in Soft Computing

Vol. 110

Pages: 518-525

ISSN: 1615-3871

Publisher: Springer

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge

Scopus - 5 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-005-4MZ

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75175-5_65

Abstract (EN): Cosmetic assessment of breast cancer conservative treatment (BCCT) plays a major role in the evaluation of this form of treatment. Objective assessment methods are being preferred to overcome the drawbacks of subjective evaluation. A recent computer-aided medical system was developed to objectively and automatically perform the aesthetic evaluation of the result of BCCT. In order to extract relevant features from the image, the detection of the breast contour is necessary. In this paper an algorithm based on the shortest path on a graph is proposed to detect the breast contour. The proposed method was applied to 300 breast images with an accuracy of 98%. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific