Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 826-835 , July 2009

Breast Mass Segmentation in Mammography Using Plane Fitting and Dynamic Programming

Received 12 October 2008 ,Accepted 25 November 2008.

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 This research was supported by the National 863 High Technology Research and Development Program of China (grant no. 2006AA02Z347).

PII: S1076-6332(08)00775-7

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.11.014

Academic Radiology
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