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Detection Method of Visible and Invisible Nipples on Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
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- Authors
- Seung-Hoon Chae, Ji-Wook Jeong, Sooyeul Lee, Eun Young Chae, Hak Hee Kim, Young-Wook Choi
- Issue Date
- 2015-03
- Citation
- Medical Imaging 2015: Image Processing (SPIE 9413), pp.1-6
- Publisher
- SPIE
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- Digital Breast Tomosynthesis(DBT) with 3D breast image can improve detection sensitivity of breast cancer more than 2D mammogram on dense breast. The nipple location information is needed to analyze DBT. The nipple location is invaluable information in registration and as a reference point for classifying mass or micro-calcification clusters. Since there are visible nipple and invisible nipple in 2D mammogram or DBT, the nipple detection of breast must be possible to detect visible and invisible nipple of breast. The detection method of visible nipple using shape information of nipple is simple and highly efficient. However, it is difficult to detect invisible nipple because it doesn"t have prominent shape. Mammary glands in breast connect nipple, anatomically. The nipple location is detected through analyzing location of mammary glands in breast. In this paper, therefore, we propose a method to detect the nipple on a breast, which has a visible or invisible nipple using changes of breast area and mammary glands, respectively. The result shows that our proposed method has average error of 2.54짹1.47mm.
- KSP Keywords
- Average error, Breast Cancer, Dense breast, Detection Method, Detection sensitivity, Digital breast tomosynthesis(DBT), Highly efficient, Location information, Reference point, nipple detection, shape information