| Presentation | 2009-01-23 Segmentation of Breast Lesions in Ultrasound Images Using Fuzzy Clustering based on Structure Tensors Yan XU, Chris CARSON, Toshihiro NISHIMURA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Ultrasound imaging of the breasts is typically done as an adjunct to mammography when breast cancer is suspected. In ultrasound imaging, speckle noise which gives a granular appearance is one of the main restrictions of segmentation. In this paper, we propose a segmentation scheme for ultrasound images of breasts based on structure tensors using fuzzy clustering. Firstly, we use nonlinear structure tensors to extract speckle texture. And then we combine the nonlinear structure tensor with the image intensity to extract the features of ultrasound images. Finally, a pixel-based fuzzy c-means clustering is applied on the feature space for image segmentation. We use manual delineated lesion regions as validations of experiment results and good results are achieved in experiments on simulated and real images. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Structure Tensor / Fuzzy C-Means Clustering / Ultrasound Image Segmentation |
| Paper # | MBE2008-81 |
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| Conference Date | 2009/1/16(1days) |
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| Registration To | ME and Bio Cybernetics (MBE) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Segmentation of Breast Lesions in Ultrasound Images Using Fuzzy Clustering based on Structure Tensors |
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| Keyword(1) | Structure Tensor |
| Keyword(2) | Fuzzy C-Means Clustering |
| Keyword(3) | Ultrasound Image Segmentation |
| 1st Author's Name | Yan XU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate school of Information, Production and System, Waseda University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Chris CARSON |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate school of Information, Production and System, Waseda University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Toshihiro NISHIMURA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate school of Information, Production and System, Waseda University |
| Date | 2009-01-23 |
| Paper # | MBE2008-81 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 405 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 4 |
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