A contrast enhancement method for improving the segmentation of breast lesions on ultrasonography

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• 作者：Wilfrido Gó ; mez Flores^a ; ^{wgomez@tamps.cinvestav.mx} ; Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira^b ; ^{wagner.coelho@ufrj.br}
• 关键词：Breast ultrasound ; Contrast enhancement ; Sigmoidal mapping function ; Adaptive enhancement ; Segmentation
• 刊名：Computers in Biology and Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：80
• 期：Complete
• 页码：14-23
• 全文大小：2683 K
• 卷排序：80

文摘

An adaptive contrast enhancement method for breast ultrasound is presented. An intensity variation map is proposed to create intensity transformation functions. The proposed approach is useful to improve computerized breast lesion segmentation. The proposed approach outperformed four published contrast enhancement methods.