Automatic Initialization of Multiple Active Contours Applied to Ultrasound Images of Breast Cancer
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The multiple active contours (snakes) are widely used in image processing to extract objects of interest. However, initialization of the active contours is still an open problem. This paper proposes a new completely automatic initialization of snakes based on a combination of Phrase Portrait Analysis (PPA) image intensity clustering and multi-stage evolution of the active contours. The proposed method has been tested with the ultrasound images of breast. The experiments show that the proposed automatic initialization is applicable to noisy ultrasound images.
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