Levels Propagation Approach to Image Segmentation: Application to Breast MR Images.

Accurate segmentation of a breast tumor region is fundamental for treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used diagnostic tool. In this paper, a new semi-automatic segmentation approach for MRI breast tumor segmentation called Levels Propagation Approach (LPA) is introduced. The intr...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 433 - 450
Autores principales: Bouchebbah, Fatah, Slimani, Hachem
Formato: algorithm diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2019
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          Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods
          Breast Neoplasms Diagnosis
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Methods
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      ab: Accurate segmentation of a breast tumor region is fundamental for treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used diagnostic tool. In this paper, a new semi-automatic segmentation approach for MRI breast tumor segmentation called Levels Propagation Approach (LPA) is introduced. The introduced segmentation approach takes inspiration from tumor propagation and relies on a finite set of nested and non-overlapped levels. LPA has several features: it is highly suitable to parallelization and offers a simple and dynamic possibility to automate the threshold selection. Furthermore, it allows stopping of the segmentation at any desired limit. Particularly, it allows to avoid to reach the breast skin-line region which is known as a significant issue that reduces the precision and the effectiveness of the breast tumor segmentation. The proposed approach have been tested on two clinical datasets, namely RIDER breast tumor dataset and CMH-LIMED breast tumor dataset. The experimental evaluations have shown that LPA has produced competitive results to some state-of-the-art methods and has acceptable computation complexity.
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