AUTOMATIC BREAST CONTOUR DETECTION IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Jaime S. Cardoso, Luis F. Teixeira, Maria J. Cardoso

2008

Abstract

Breast cancer conservative treatment (BCCT), due to its proven oncological safety, is considered, when feasible, the gold standard of breast cancer treatment. However, aesthetic results are heterogeneous and difficult to evaluate in a standardized way, due to the lack of reproducibility of the subjective methods usually applied. The objective assessment methods, considered in the past as being less capable of evaluating all aspects of BCCT, are nowadays being preferred to overcome the drawbacks of the subjective evaluation. A recent computer-aided medical system was developed to objectively and automatically evaluate the aesthetic result of BCCT. In this system, the detection of the breast contour on the digital photograph of the patient is a necessary step to extract the features subsequently used in the evaluation process. In this paper an algorithm based on the shortest path on a graph is proposed to detect automatically the breast contour. The proposed method extends an existing semi-automatic algorithm for the same purpose. A comprehensive comparison with manually-drawn contours reveals the strength of the proposed method.

Paper Citation

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf08,
author={Jaime S. Cardoso and Luis F. Teixeira and Maria J. Cardoso},
title={AUTOMATIC BREAST CONTOUR DETECTION IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 2: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={91-98},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001039500910098},
isbn={978-989-8111-16-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 2: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2008)
TI - AUTOMATIC BREAST CONTOUR DETECTION IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS
SN - 978-989-8111-16-6
AU - S. Cardoso J.
AU - F. Teixeira L.
AU - J. Cardoso M.
PY - 2008
SP - 91
EP - 98
DO - 10.5220/0001039500910098

in Harvard Style

S. Cardoso J., F. Teixeira L. and J. Cardoso M. (2008). AUTOMATIC BREAST CONTOUR DETECTION IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 2: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-16-6, pages 91-98. DOI: 10.5220/0001039500910098