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Segmentation of Breast Nodules on Ultrasonographic Images Based on Marke d-Controlled Watershed Transform
Abstract. In this article is presented a computerized
segmentation method for breast nodules on ultrasonic
images. With the goal of removing the speckle while
preserving important information from the lesion
boundaries, a Gabor filter followed by an anisotropic
diffusion filtering are applied to the ultrasonic image.
Furthermore, the marker-controlled Watershed transform
defines potential boundaries that maximize the Average
Radial Derivative function to get the final lesion contour.
The segmentation procedure was applied on a database of
50 images and the computer-delineated margins were
compared against manual outlines drawn by two
radiologist