Breast Cancer Segmentation Methods: Current Status and Future Potentials

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Segmentation and detection result on mammogram image by proposed method: (a) original image, (b) smoothed image, (c) patch image after thresholding, (d) cancer region found in input image in window, (e) region patch found after morphological closing, (f) region boundary using gradient, (g) cancer area detected, (h) cancer area with region segmentation, and (i) proposed segmentation result of cancer in input mammogram image [109].

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