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Cosmetic assessment of breast cancer conservative treatment (BCCT) plays a major role in the evaluation of this form of treatment. Objective assessment methods are being preferred to overcome the drawbacks of subjective evaluation. A recent computer-aided medical system was developed to objectively and automatically perform the aesthetic evaluation of the result of BCCT. In order to extract relevant features from the image, the detection of the breast contour is necessary. In this paper an algorithm based on the shortest path on a graph is proposed to detect the breast contour. The proposed method was applied to 300 breast images with an accuracy of 98%.
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Cardoso, J.S., Cardoso, M.J. (2007). Breast Contour Detection for the Aesthetic Evaluation of Breast Cancer Conservative Treatment. In: Kurzynski, M., Puchala, E., Wozniak, M., Zolnierek, A. (eds) Computer Recognition Systems 2. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75175-5_65
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