International Journal of Applied Research on Information Technology and Computing
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Suppression of Pectoral Muscle from Digital Mammogram based on Edge-Based Method

  • Author:
  • Indra Kanta Maitra1, Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay2,
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Published Online: Dec 1, 2018
  • Page Number: 260 to 267

1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Sci. and Engineering, University of Calcutta, J.D. Block, Sector-III, Saltlake, Kolkata, India

2Professor, Dept. of Computer Sci. and Engineering, University of Calcutta, J.D. Block, Sector-III, Saltlake, Kolkata, India

*Corresponding author email id: 1954samir@gmail.com

Abstract

The detection of the boundary of pectoral muscle in mammograms is to find out the possible presence of abnormal axillary lymph nodes. The proposed method is for segmented pectoral muscle into broad range of size, shape, type and position. It is then used to suppress the pectoral muscle.

Keywords

Axillary lymph nodes, Breast region, Edge detection, Segmentation