Detection of Masses in Digital Mammograms using K-Means and Support Vector Machine

Detection of Masses in Digital Mammograms using K-Means and Support Vector Machine

Female breast cancer is a major cause of death in occidental countries. CAD/CADx systems can aid radiologists in detection and diagnostic of lesions in mammograms. In this work, we present a methodology to detect masses from mammograms. The K-means clustering algorithm is used to split the mammogram...

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Main Authors: Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Geraldo Braz Junior, Aristófanes Correa Silva, Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva, Marcelo Gattass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Computer Vision Center Press 2009-08-01
Series:ELCVIA Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis
Subjects:
Mammogram
Segmentation
Detection of Breast Lesions
K-Means
Support Vector Machine
Online Access:https://elcvia.cvc.uab.es/article/view/216

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