Statistical Segmentation of Regions of Interest on a Mammographic Image. (26th July 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Adel Adel, Mouloud Mouloud; Rasigni Rasigni, Monique Monique; Bourennane Bourennane, Salah Salah; Juhan Juhan, Valerie Valerie
• Other Names: Jan Jan Jiri Jiri Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: EURASIP journal on advances in signal processing. Volume 2007(2007)
• Publication Date: 2007-07-26
• Subjects: Signal processing -- Periodicals; Traitement du signal; Signal processing; Periodicals; 621.3822
• DOI: 10.1155/2007/49482
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-6172

Abstract

Abstract : This paper deals with segmentation of breast anatomical regions, pectoral muscle, fatty and fibroglandular regions, using a Bayesian approach. This work is a part of a computer aided diagnosis project aiming at evaluating breast cancer risk and its association with characteristics (density, texture, etc.) of regions of interest on digitized mammograms. Novelty in this paper consists in applying and adapting Markov random field for detecting breast anatomical regions on digitized mammograms whereas most of previous works were focused on masses and microcalcifications. The developed method was tested on 50 digitized mammograms of the mini-MIAS database. Computer segmentation is compared to manual one made by a radiologist. A good agreement is obtained on 68% of the mini-MIAS mammographic image database used in this study. Given obtained segmentation results, the proposed method could be considered as a satisfying first approach for segmenting regions of interest in a breast.