TY - GEN
T1 - Selection of suspicious ROIs in breast DCE-MRI
AU - Fusco, Roberta
AU - Sansone, Mario
AU - Sansone, Carlo
AU - Petrillo, Antonella
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) could be helpful in screening high-risk women and in staging newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Selection of suspicious regions of interest (ROIs) is a critical pre-processing step in DCE-MRI data evaluation. The aim of this work is to develop and evaluate a method for automatic selection of suspicious ROIs for breast DCE-MRI. The proposed algorithm includes three steps: (i) breast mask segmentation via intensity threshold estimation; (ii) morphological operations for hole-filling and leakage removal; (iii) suspicious ROIs extraction. The proposed approach has been evaluated, using adequate metrics, with respect to manual ROI selection performed, on ten patients, by an expert radiologist.
AB - Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) could be helpful in screening high-risk women and in staging newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Selection of suspicious regions of interest (ROIs) is a critical pre-processing step in DCE-MRI data evaluation. The aim of this work is to develop and evaluate a method for automatic selection of suspicious ROIs for breast DCE-MRI. The proposed algorithm includes three steps: (i) breast mask segmentation via intensity threshold estimation; (ii) morphological operations for hole-filling and leakage removal; (iii) suspicious ROIs extraction. The proposed approach has been evaluated, using adequate metrics, with respect to manual ROI selection performed, on ten patients, by an expert radiologist.
KW - Breast
KW - DCE-MRI
KW - ROI selection
KW - segmentation
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-24085-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24085-0_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053010960
SN - 9783642240843
VL - 6978 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 48
EP - 57
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2011
Y2 - 14 September 2011 through 16 September 2011
ER -