Breast Cancer Identification via Thermography Image Segmentation with a Gradient Vector Flow and a Convolutional Neural Network

Figure 3

Initial elliptical points for GVF. (a) Left and right margins or lines. (b) Boundaries from curvature function. (c) Initial elliptical points obtained from cvt k for GVF. (d) Curvature function of right breast and left breast (Video 1 (MPEG, 169 KB) of supplementary materials).

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