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\itemau{Nava, Enrique; Barba, Irene; Sendra, Francisco; G\'omez-Rebollo, Celestino}
\itemti{Quantification of vascular calcifications on digitized mammograms.}
\itemso{Mart{\'\i}, Joan (ed.) et al., Digital mammography. 10th international workshop, IWDM 2010, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, June 16--18, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-13665-8/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6136, 183-190 (2010).}
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Summary: In this paper, it's presented an automatic quantification computer algorithm of breast arterial calcifications in digital mammograms, using image processing techniques, to be used as a quantitative cardiovascular risk or diabetes indicator for women. The proposed image processing algorithm is composed of two main steps: a detection phase, using a combination of the line operator method with edge detection, and a segmentation phase which use a thresholding technique to obtain seeds for a region growing algorithm. Obtained results shows a good agreement with ground truth images of calcified vessels which have been hand-segmented by an experienced radiologist with a high degree of detail and quality .
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\itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5\_25}
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