Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake

Breast cancer is a mysterious disease that forms through the formation of cancer in the cells of the breast. It is one of the most dangerous cancer diagnosed in women and may lead to the increasing number of deaths all over the world. In this paper, Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake technique is prop...

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Main Authors:	Mahfuzah, Mustafa, Nur Azwa, Omar Rashid, Rosdiyana, Samad, Norizam, Sulaiman
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/1/Breast%20Cancer%20Segmentation%20Based%20on%20GVF%20Snake.pdf

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spelling	ump-88742018-04-11T01:51:25Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/ Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake Mahfuzah, Mustafa Nur Azwa, Omar Rashid Rosdiyana, Samad Norizam, Sulaiman TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Breast cancer is a mysterious disease that forms through the formation of cancer in the cells of the breast. It is one of the most dangerous cancer diagnosed in women and may lead to the increasing number of deaths all over the world. In this paper, Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake technique is proposed to detect cancerous cells in breast tissues. Ten images of mammograms were tested by using the GVF Snake technique. The mammography images were pre-processed at first using Gaussian Low Pass Filter to remove the unwanted noise and followed by contrast enhancement. After that, the GVF Snake technique is then used to segment the particular cancerous region in the breast tissue as it is allows for flexible initialization of deformable surface and encourages convergence to boundary concavities. The GVF Snake technique showed positive results in segmenting the cancerous region in breast tissue. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/1/Breast%20Cancer%20Segmentation%20Based%20on%20GVF%20Snake.pdf Mahfuzah, Mustafa and Nur Azwa, Omar Rashid and Rosdiyana, Samad and Norizam, Sulaiman (2014) Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake. In: IEEE Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), 8-10 December 2014 , Kuala Lumpur. pp. 928-931.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECBES.2014.7047647
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description	Breast cancer is a mysterious disease that forms through the formation of cancer in the cells of the breast. It is one of the most dangerous cancer diagnosed in women and may lead to the increasing number of deaths all over the world. In this paper, Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake technique is proposed to detect cancerous cells in breast tissues. Ten images of mammograms were tested by using the GVF Snake technique. The mammography images were pre-processed at first using Gaussian Low Pass Filter to remove the unwanted noise and followed by contrast enhancement. After that, the GVF Snake technique is then used to segment the particular cancerous region in the breast tissue as it is allows for flexible initialization of deformable surface and encourages convergence to boundary concavities. The GVF Snake technique showed positive results in segmenting the cancerous region in breast tissue.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mahfuzah, Mustafa Nur Azwa, Omar Rashid Rosdiyana, Samad Norizam, Sulaiman
author_facet	Mahfuzah, Mustafa Nur Azwa, Omar Rashid Rosdiyana, Samad Norizam, Sulaiman
author_sort	Mahfuzah, Mustafa
title	Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake
title_short	Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake
title_full	Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake
title_fullStr	Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake
title_full_unstemmed	Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake
title_sort	breast cancer segmentation based on gvf snake
publishDate	2014
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8874/1/Breast%20Cancer%20Segmentation%20Based%20on%20GVF%20Snake.pdf
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Breast Cancer Segmentation Based on GVF Snake

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