Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Patent
1996-10-02
1998-10-20
Chang, Jon
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
382173, 382266, 378 37, G06T 520
Patent
active
058259104
ABSTRACT:
Digital mammograms are automatically segmented into background, corresponding to the region external of the breast, and foreground, corresponding to the region within the breast, by the detection of the skinline which forms a border between these regions. A binary array is produced representing an initial coarse segmentation between foreground and background. The binary values are assigned in dependance on the sign of a spatial derivative approximating a gradient normal to the skinline. Spatial derivatives in fixed directions making a substantial angle with respect to the normal to the chest wall approximate the normal to the skinline direction in medial, lateral and lower contour sections of the breast, while a spatial derivative normal to the chest wall approximates the gradient normal to the skinline in anterior and upper contour sections of the breast. The initial coarse segmentation is followed by detection and elimination of expected labels either in the background or attached to the foreground, a tracing of the resultant boundary contour between binary regions, a detection of dominant points along the traced contour, and smoothing between the detected dominant points. A processed mammogram having the detected skinline outlined, is produced and displayed.
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Chang Jon
Philips Electronics North America Corp.
Slobod Jack D.
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