A breast tumor segmentation platform for mass and non-mass tumors on 3D MRI was developed. The segmentation of non-mass lesions is challenging. We developed a new method based on region-growing with the threshold determined by comparison of the intensity histograms in an ROI containing suspicious tumor region vs. outside ROI containing normal fibroglandular tissues. Breast MRI of 122 patients with pathologically-confirmed breast cancer were studied. Of them, 14 had triple negative, 29 had HER2-positive, and 51 had Hormonal-positive, HER2-negative breast cancers. The segmented tumor ROI was analyzed to obtain morphology and texture parameters for differentiation of these 3 molecular subtypes.
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