Research Article

Segmentation of the Breast Skin and Its Influence in the Simulation of the Breast Compression during an X-Ray Mammography

Figure 3

From left to right (a): original MRI slice; pixels with gray value higher than 0; pixels with gray value higher than 0 after curvature flow filter and low threshold. From left to right (b): 𝐶 -means with 4 clusters; clusters with skin and dense tissue; new 𝐶 -means with 2 clusters; final skin classification (white pixel values).
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