Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade
Abstract
A fast and simple method for the visual enhancement of small bright details
in digital mam- mograms based on mathematical morphology is proposed. By a
proper choice of the shape and size of the structuring element, an algorithm
for a particular processing task - in this case, for the visual enhancement
of microcalcifications in digital mammograms - was designed. The efficiency
of the proposed algorithm was tested on publicly available mammograms from
the mammographic image analysis society database. In all tested cases (23
mammograms), the proposed method successfully segmented and enhanced the
existing microcalcifications, in- dependently verified by medical experts.
The proposed procedure may be used both as a visual aid in clinical mammogram
analysis or as a preprocessing step for further processing, such as
segmentation, classification and detection of microcalcifications. Moreover,
the algorithm is very fast and robust, thus applicable to real-time mammogram
processing.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Nuclear Energy and Engineering
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