Abstract:
In order to address the tendency of ultrasound B-Mode images to show a too small sizing of tumour masses in breast cancer diagnosis, a novel segmentation method has been ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
In order to address the tendency of ultrasound B-Mode images to show a too small sizing of tumour masses in breast cancer diagnosis, a novel segmentation method has been introduced. In this paper it has been explored if this problem can be solved by incorporating strain parameters from ultrasound elastography into a segmentation framework. By incorporating a local power estimate from an autoregressive model on the RF-data with strain parameters into a fast algorithm using Graph-cuts, very difficult to interpret cancer data could be segmented successfully with more accurate sizing than with B-Mode data alone. However, more research is necessary to correlate histology findings with elasticity parameters to find the best model to interpret strain data for breast mass segmentation.
Date of Conference: 14-17 May 2008
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 June 2008
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