Automatic Detection of Pectoral Muscle Using Average Gradient and Shape Based Feature.

In medio-lateral oblique view of mammogram, pectoral muscle may sometimes affect the detection of breast cancer due to their similar characteristics with abnormal tissues. As a result pectoral muscle should be handled separately while detecting the breast cancer. In this paper, a novel approach for...

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Published in:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 387 - 400
Main Authors: Chakraborty, Jayasree, Mukhopadhyay, Sudipta, Singla, Veenu, Khandelwal, Niranjan, Bhattacharyya, Pinakpani
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2012
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