Automatic initialization of active contours and level set method in ultrasound images of breast abnormalities

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Highlights：

• The paper presents an original method to initialize the active contours and the level set method in ultrasound images of breast cancer using walking particles.

• The method tested against five state-of-the-art initialization methods shows the advantage in terms of the accuracy or/and processing time.

• The combination of the proposed walking particles and the level set method is the most suitable for segmentation of breast tumors.

摘要

•The paper presents an original method to initialize the active contours and the level set method in ultrasound images of breast cancer using walking particles.•The method tested against five state-of-the-art initialization methods shows the advantage in terms of the accuracy or/and processing time.•The combination of the proposed walking particles and the level set method is the most suitable for segmentation of breast tumors.

论文关键词：Ultrasound image segmentation

论文评审过程：Received 18 October 2016, Revised 1 September 2017, Accepted 28 January 2018, Available online 2 February 2018, Version of Record 16 February 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.01.032