DETECTION OF NON-PARAMETRIC LINES BY EVIDENCE ACCUMULATION: FINDING BLOOD VESSELS IN MAMMOGRAMS

被引:2
作者
Chmielewski, Leszek J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Polish Acad Sci, Inst Fundamental Technol Res, Swietokrzyska 21, PL-00049 Warsaw, Poland
来源
COMPUTER VISION AND GRAPHICS (ICCVG 2004) | 2006年 / 32卷
关键词
Hough transform; evidence accumulation; fuzzy; non-parametric shapes; image domain; line detection; multi-scale; mammography; blood vessels detection;
D O I
10.1007/1-4020-4179-9_54
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
The evidence accumulation method for finding objects having shape which can be neither parameterized nor tabularized is proposed. The result is a multi-scale measure of existence of the detected object, in the accumulator congruent with the image domain, supplemented with local information on additional features of the object. The method is implemented for finding blood vessels in mammographic images, visible as bright lines. In this case, information from pairs of pixels is used for accumulation. The accumulation is fuzzy in several ways.
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页码:373 / 380
页数:8
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