Segmentação de imagens ultrassonográficas para detecção de nódulos / Segmentation of ultrasound images to detect nodules

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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Breast cancer is one of the main health problems of the female population and should be faced as an important public health care issue. The ultrasound scanning is considered the most effective in complementary method of breast diagnosis. Nevertheless, the acquisition format of this sort degrades the images in various ways, being the speckle noise of noticeably influence once it leaves the image with grainy aspect. Therefore, the separability between objects of the scene is hindered. This work presents an automatic technique of ultrasound image segmentation of breast lumps. The algorithm allows the extraction of the nodular edges permitting the clinical parameters to be obtained for the breast diagnosis. All the process is based on three steps: speckle noise minimization, image contrast intensification and finally the segmentation. The technique used on the speckle noise minimization is based on the Wavelet transform of the Symlet family; image contrast intensifications are applied for the segmentation. Thereafter the algorithm of segmentation Asterisco is applied, which is originally proposed to detect micro calcifications in X-ray mammography, and has also shown efficiency regarding the goals of the present work. The Asterisco technique along with the pre processing techniques (noise minimizing and contrast intensification) produced sensitivity rate in nodule detection by 90%. With regard to the segmentation quality, the presented technique has also proved to be satisfactory as it has superior quality to the ones tested according to the analysis made by the Pearsons correlation coefficients calculation. Thus, it is possible to conclude that the system, which has been developed in this work, can constitute an efficient breast lumps segmentation tool so as to aid the set of available information to an automatic classifier in mammography CAD schemes.

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ruído speckle breast ultrasound nódulo mamário speckle noise esquema cad em mamografia ultrassom de mama mammography cad scheme detection mass

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