NDLI: Breast contour detection with shape priors

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sousa, R. Cardoso, J.S. da Costa, J.F.P. Cardoso, M.J.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Fac. de Cienc., Univ. do Porto, Porto (Sousa, R.; Cardoso, J.S.; da Costa, J.F.P.) \|\| Fac. de Medicina, Univ. do Porto, Porto (Cardoso, M.J.)
Abstract	Breast cancer conservative treatment (BCCT) is considered the gold standard of breast cancer treatment. However, aesthetic results are heterogeneous and difficult to evaluate in a standardised way. The limited reproducibility of subjective aesthetic evaluation in BCCT forced the research on objective methods. A recent computer system was developed to objectively and automatically evaluate the aesthetic result of BCCT. In this system, the detection of the breast contour on the digital photograph of the patient is necessary to extract the features subsequently used in the evaluation process. In this paper we extend an algorithm based on the shortest path on a graph to detect automatically the breast contour. The advantage of graph algorithms is that they are guaranteed to find the global optimum of the problem; the difficulty is that they make it hard to enforce shape constraints. We define and compare different techniques to introduce the a priory knowledge of the mammary contour. Experimental results show that the proposed techniques consistently outperform the base method.
Starting Page	1440
Ending Page	1443
File Size	157217
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424417650
ISSN	15224880
DOI	10.1109/ICIP.2008.4712036
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-10-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Shape Image edge detection Breast cancer Reproducibility of results Feature extraction Medical treatment Surgery Skin Detection algorithms Pixel shape prior modeling Biomedical image processing medical expert systems image analysis shortest path
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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