Mass segmentation in mammograms by using Bidimensional Emperical Mode Decomposition BEMD

Breast mass segmentation in mammography plays a crucial role in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems. In this paper a Bidimensional Emperical Mode Decomposition (BEMD) method is introduced for the mass segmentation in mammography images. This method is used to decompose images into a set of functions named Bidimensional Intrinsic Mode Functions (BIMF) and a residue. Our approach consists of three steps: 1) the regions of interest (ROIs) were identified by using iterative thresholding; 2) the contour of the regions of interest (ROI) was extracted from the first BIMF by using the (BEMD) method; 3) the region of interest was finally refined by the extracted contour. The proposed approach is tested on (MIAS) database and the obtained results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.

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