01143nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653001700055653001300072653001300085653001400098100002400112700002700136700002000163245009000183856009800273300001000371490000600381520051200387022001400899       2017                            d  c09/201710aSegmentation10aMedicine10aChanVese10aMammogram1 aYoussef Ben Youssef1 ahassane El Abdelmounim1 aAbdellah Lamnii00aContour Detection of Mammogram Masses Using ChanVese Model and B-Spline Approximation  uhttp://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2016/12/ijimai20174_5_4_pdf_17629.pdf  a25-270 v43 aChanVese model segmentation has been applied for contour detection of mass region in mammogram in our previous work. Available information of the desired object contour is used, in this paper, for B-spline approximation. The mass region boundary (contour) is thereafter approximated by a B-spline curve. This approach allows synthesizing the shape of the suspected mass appearing in the mammogram. Experimental results show the accurateness of mass region contour in mammograms using B-spline approximation.  a1989-1660