@inproceedings{c8455a429f1a41ba8f979bddc81f68de,
title = "Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks",
abstract = "A fully automatic algorithm is developed for breast arterial calcification extraction in mammograms. This algorithm is implemented in two major steps: a random-walk based tracking step and a compiling and linking step. With given seeds from detected calcification points, the tracking algorithm traverses the vesselness map by exploring the uncertainties of three tracking factors, i.e., traversing direction, jumping distance, and vesselness value, to generate all possible sampling paths. The compiling and linking algorithm further organizes and groups all sampling paths into calcified vessel tracts. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed automatic calcification extraction algorithm is statistically close to that obtained by manual delineations.",
keywords = "Breast arterioal calcification, Mammogram, Random walk, Vessel detection",
author = "Cheng, {Jie Zhi} and Cole, {Elodia B.} and Pisano, {Etta D.} and Dinggang Shen",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59",
language = "English",
isbn = "3642024971",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "713--724",
booktitle = "Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings",
note = "21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2009 ; Conference date: 05-07-2009 Through 10-07-2009",
}