TY - JOUR AU - Li, Haixia AU - Meng, Xianjing AU - Wang, Tingwen AU - Tang, Yuchun AU - Yin, Yilong PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/14 TI - Breast masses in mammography classification with local contour features JO - BioMedical Engineering OnLine SP - 44 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Mammography is one of the most popular tools for early detection of breast cancer. Contour of breast mass in mammography is very important information to distinguish benign and malignant mass. Contour of benign mass is smooth and round or oval, while malignant mass has irregular shape and spiculated contour. Several studies have shown that 1D signature translated from 2D contour can describe the contour features well. SN - 1475-925X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-017-0332-0 DO - 10.1186/s12938-017-0332-0 ID - Li2017 ER -