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International Journal of Computer & Software Engineering Volume 2 (2017), Article ID 2:IJCSE-119, 8 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-4451/2017/119
Research Article
3D Tumor Segmentation in Breast MRIs using 3D Modified Active Contour Method

Sheng-Chih Yang* and Che-Jui Hsu

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chin Yi University of Technology, Taichung 41170, Taiwan
Dr. Sheng-Chih Yang, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chin Yi University of Technology, Taichung 41170, Taiwan; E-mail: scyang@ncut.edu.tw
05 July 2017; 21 October 2017; 23 October 2017
Yang SC, Hsu CJ (2017) 3D Tumor Segmentation in Breast MRIs using 3D Modified Active Contour Method. Int J Comput Softw Eng 2: 119. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-4451/2017/119
This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grant No. MOST 103-2221-E-167-025 and NSC 101- 2221-E-167-036.
© 2017 Yang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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