Paper Info
Title
3-D snake for US in margin evaluation for malignant breast tumor excision using Mammotome.
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to use the three-dimensional (3-D) snake technique in 3-D ultrasound to obtain the tumor contour for the pre- and the post-operative malignant breast excision by the vacuum assisted biopsy instrument Mammotome. This technique of assessing the margin of two can help the physician to evaluate the effect of the surgery. By using the anisotropic diffusion filter, the noise and speckles can be reduced. Then the stick detection is adopted for enhancing the edge. Finally, the gradient vector flow (GVF) snake is used to obtain the tumor contour. These techniques are extended to the 3-D techniques to increase the accuracy and robust of segmentation results. We hope that this study can help physicians to improve the minimal invasive operation for a breast tumor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/TITB.2003.816560
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
mammography,speckles,post-operative malignant breast excision,biopsy instrument,breast tumor,malignant breast tumor excision,noise,tumor contour,image segmentation,segmentation,anisotropic diffusion filter,minimal invasive operation,biomedical ultrasonics,3-d ultrasound,gradient vector flow,3-d technique,cancer,3d snake,vacuum assisted biopsy instrument,margin evaluation,3-d snake,tumours,3d ultrasound,snake technique,three-dimensional snake,surgery,mammotome,medical image processing,three dimensional,ultrasound,indexing terms,anisotropic diffusion
Malignant Breast Tumor,Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy,Mammography,Mammotome,Computer science,Segmentation,Image segmentation,Vector flow,Radiology,Ultrasound
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3
1089-7771
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.33
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruey-Feng Chang139534.88
Wen-Jie Wu2352.16
Chih-Chi Tseng3181.67
Dar-Ren Chen4525.14
Woo Kyung Moon529919.46