SEGMENTATION OF CANCER FORMATIONS FROM BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS

This paper presents an algorithm for segmentation of lesions in breast tomosynthesis slices. The implemented approach is based on finding specific values in a region of interest containing the tumor, followed by a set of morphology operations to remove any structures not belonging to the tumor structure, and automatic region growing algorithm to finally obtain the tumor image. The developed algorithm was applied on ten patient sets of breast tomosynthesis images to segment successfully the breast tumors