Mass edge detection in mammography based on plane fitting and dynamic programming
Enmin Song, Luan Jiang, Bo Meng, Renchao Jin, Xiangyang Xu, Chih‐Cheng Hung · 2007
In this paper an automatic and effective method was proposed for mass segmentation in mammography. Based on the facts that mass edges are continuous and closed curves consisted of points which have larger gradient transformation, a plane fitting method and a dynamic programming technique were applied. The regions of interest (ROIs) used in this study were extracted from DDSM. The preliminary experimental results show that the segmentation algorithm performs well for various types of masses.