TY - JOUR
TI - Automatic breast-line and pectoral muscle segmentation
AU - Czaplicka, Kamila
AU - Włodarczyk, Helene
TI - Automatic breast-line and pectoral muscle segmentation
AB - 
	Pre-processing of mammograms is a crucial step in computer-aided analysis systems. The aim of segmentation is to extract a breast region by estimation of a breast skin-line and a pectoral muscle as well as removing radiographic artifacts and the background of the mammogram. Knowledge of the breast contour also allows further analysis of breast abnormalities such as bilateral asymmetry. In this paper we propose a fully automatic algorithm for segmentation of a breast region, based on two types of global image thresholding: the multi-level Otsu and minimizing the measure of fuzziness as well as the gradient estimation and linear regression. The results of our experiments showed that our method can be used to find a breast line and a pectoral muscle accurately
VL - 2011
IS - Volume 20
PY - 2012
SN - 1732-3916
C1 - 2083-8476
SP - 195
EP - 209
DO - 10.4467/20838476SI.11.011.0297
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/schedae-informaticae/article/automatic-breast-line-and-pectoral-muscle-segmentation
KW - pectoral muscle
KW - breast boundary
KW - mammogram
KW - segmentation