In this paper we describe a new segmentation scheme to detect masses in breast radiographs. Our segmentation method relies on the well known fuzzy c-means unsupervised clustering technique using an image representation scheme based on the local power spectrum obtained by a bank of Gabor filters. We tested our method on 200 mammograms from the CALMA database. The detected regions have been validated by comparing them with the radiologists hand-sketched boundaries of real masses. The results, evaluated using ROC curve methodology, show that the greater flexibility and effectiveness provided by the fuzzy clustering approach benefit from an image representation that combine both intensity and local frequency information. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Santoro, M., Prevete, R., Cavallo, L., & Catanzariti, E. (2006). Mass detection in mammograms using gabor filters and fuzzy clustering. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3849 LNAI, pp. 334–343). https://doi.org/10.1007/11676935_42
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