Improving Segmentation of Breast Ultrasound Images: Semi Automatic Two Pointers Histogram Splitting Technique
Automatically segmenting lesion area in breast ultrasound (BUS) images is a challenging one due to its noise, speckle and artifacts. Edge-map of BUS images also does not help because in most cases the edge-map gives no information whatsoever. Almost all segmentation technique takes the edge-map of the image as its first step, though there are a few algorithms that try to avoid edge-maps as well. Improving the edge-map of breast ultrasound images theoretically improves the chances of automatic segmentation to be more precise. In this paper, we propose a semi-automatic technique of histogram splitting using two pointers. Here the user only has to select two initially guessed points denoting a circle on the region of interest (ROI). The method will automatically study the internal histogram and split it using two pointers. The output BUS image has improved edge-map and ultimately the segmentation on it is better compared to regular segmentation using same algorithm and same initialization. Also, we further processed the edge-map to have less edge-pixels to area ratio, improving the homogeneity and the chances of easy segmentation in the future.
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