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A New Approach to Image Segmentation Mammogram

Received: 19 June 2015     Accepted: 7 July 2015     Published: 17 July 2015
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Breast cancer continues to be one of the main causes of death among women. Various studies have confirmed that the early detection of sub-clinical cancers may improve the prognosis. X-ray mammography in this case is the best diagnostic technique. It’s based on the interaction of a cone beam X-ray with the mole tissue. The projection image obtained can be analyzed qualitatively by the radiologists. But, an automatic treatment and quantitative analysis of this kind of images is suitable. For this reason several studies are conducted to develop tools to help with diagnosis of this disease (CAD: Computer-Assisted Diagnosis). We propose in this paper a new method to segment mammographic images based partly on a pyramidal architecture. The original image is fragmented (quadtree) initially to homogeneous regions. Each region is then associated with a peak of graph. It gathers data within homogeneous groups named regions classes’ c, then we use HCA (Hierarchical classification ascendant) and k-means to find the optimal partition for the largest possible value of c at the initial stage. This technique gives good results, and allows calculating morphological parameters of the breast cancer.

Published in American Journal of Nano Research and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.nano.20150304.12
Page(s) 78-81
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Keywords

Mamography, Image Segmentation, K-means, Irregular Pyramid, HCA

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  • LAboratory of Research on Optimization of Emergent Systems, Network and Imaging of computer science Department of Choua?bDoukkali University, EL Jadida, Morocco

  • Radiology Departement Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Hassan II University and Central Service of Radiology Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Morocco

  • LAboratory of Mathematics Applied on Physics and Industry, Mathematics Department of Choua?bDoukkali University, EL Jadida, Morocco

  • Radiology Departement Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Hassan II University and Central Service of Radiology Ibn Rochd University Hospital Casablanca, Morocco

  • LAboratory of Research on Optimization of Emergent Systems, Network and Imaging of computer science Department of Choua?bDoukkali University, EL Jadida, Morocco

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