Enhance distance active contour

Efficiency of Enhanced Distance Active Contour (EDAC) for Microcalcifications... 

Keywords— Enhanced Distance Active Contour, Mammogram, Microcalcifications, Segmentation, Boundaries. 

Enhanced Distance Active Contour (EDAC) is introduced in order to solve the issue. In this paper, the efficiency of DAC and EDAC in segmenting characteristic details on breast phantom images is compared. In this study, the breast phantom is needed in order to test the applicability of EDAC, in the detection of the characteristic details hidden behind the phantom. The breast phantom refers to a test object used to simulate radiographic characteristics of compressed tissue. A phantom is designed to simulate x-ray attenuation of 4.2 cm compressed human breast which is composed of 50% adipose and 50% glandular tissue. Then, both methods are implemented on mammograms to segment microcalcifications [3]. Einally, the performance of both methods are measured and compared. This is to verify that the EDAC performs better than DAC. 

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