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The appearance of microcalcifications in mammograms is one of the early signs of breast cancer. So, early detection of microcalcification clusters (MCCs) in mammograms can be helpful for cancer diagnosis and better treatment of breast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Hajar Moradmand , Saeed Setayeshi , Hossein Khazaei Targhi

The ODELIA Breast MRI Challenge 2025 addresses a critical issue in breast cancer screening: improving early detection through more efficient and accurate interpretation of breast MRI scans. Even though methods for general-purpose whole-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Benjamin Hamm , Yannick Kirchhoff , Maximilian Rokuss , Klaus Maier-Hein

This paper presents a tumor detection algorithm from mammogram. The proposed system focuses on the solution of two problems. One is how to detect tumors as suspicious regions with a very weak contrast to their background and another is how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Y. Ireaneus Anna Rejani , S. Thamarai Selvi

Locating region of interest for breast cancer masses in the mammographic image is a challenging problem in medical image processing. In this research work, the keen idea is to efficiently extract suspected mass region for further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 BV Divyashree , Amarnath R , Naveen M , G Hemantha Kumar

Breast cancer is one of the most serious disease affecting women's health. Due to low cost, portable, no radiation, and high efficiency, breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging is the most popular approach for diagnosing early breast cancer.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Kuan Huang , Yingtao Zhang , H. D. Cheng , Ping Xing , Boyu Zhang

Medical imaging is an essential tool in many areas of medical applications, used for both diagnosis and treatment. However, reading medical images and making diagnosis or treatment recommendations require specially trained medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Wentao Zhu

Breast cancer (BC) significantly contributes to cancer-related mortality in women, underscoring the criticality of early detection for optimal patient outcomes. A mammography is a key tool for identifying and diagnosing breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Muhammad Yaqub , Feng Jinchao

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Detection of breast cancer, while it is still small and confined to the breast, provides the best chance of effective treatment.…

Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, necessitating the meticulous examination of mammograms by radiologists to characterize abnormal lesions. This manual process demands high accuracy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Laia Domingo , Mahdi Chehimi

Breast density estimation is one of the key tasks in recognizing individuals predisposed to breast cancer. It is often challenging because of low contrast and fluctuations in mammograms' fatty tissue background. Most of the time, the breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Vikash Gupta , Mutlu Demirer , Robert W. Maxwell , Richard D. White , Barbaros Selnur Erdal

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women worldwide. In clinical routine, automatic breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation is very challenging and essential for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Min Xian , Yingtao Zhang , H. D. Cheng , Fei Xu , Boyu Zhang , Jianrui Ding

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, and its accurate and timely diagnosis plays a critical role in improving treatment outcomes. This thesis presents an innovative framework for detecting malignant masses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ehsan Sadeghi Pour , Mahdi Esmaeili , Morteza Romoozi

Mammogram classification is directly related to computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. Traditional methods requires great effort to annotate the training data by costly manual labeling and specialized computational models to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Wentao Zhu , Qi Lou , Yeeleng Scott Vang , Xiaohui Xie

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation is challenging and critical for BUS Comput-er-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems. Many BUS segmentation approaches have been studied in the last two decades, but the performances of most approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Min Xian , Yingtao Zhang , H. D. Cheng , Fei Xu , Kuan Huang , Boyu Zhang , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning , Ying Wang

Early detection of breast cancer through screening mammography yields a 20-35% increase in survival rate; however, there are not enough radiologists to serve the growing population of women seeking screening mammography. Although commercial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Stefano Pedemonte , Brent Mombourquette , Alexis Goh , Trevor Tsue , Aaron Long , Sadanand Singh , Thomas Paul Matthews , Meet Shah , Jason Su

Currently Mammography is a most effective imaging modality used by radiologists for the screening of breast cancer. Finding an accurate, robust and efficient breast region segmentation technique still remains a challenging problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-30 R. Subash Chandra Boss , K. Thangavel , D. Arul Pon Daniel

Identification and segmentation of breast masses in mammograms face complex challenges, owing to the highly variable nature of malignant densities with regards to their shape, contours, texture and orientation. Additionally, classifiers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jaime Simarro , Zohaib Salahuddin , Ahmed Gouda , Anindo Saha

Breast cancer is one of the leading fatal disease worldwide with high risk control if early discovered. Conventional method for breast screening is x-ray mammography, which is known to be challenging for early detection of cancer lesions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Essam A. Rashed , M. Samir Abou El Seoud

A system for the automated detection of massive lesions in mammograms is presented. The approach we adopted is a pixel-based and multi-level one. Each pixel in a mammogram is flagged with the appropriate class membership, e.g. massive…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilaria Gori , Alessandra Retico

In this paper we present an efficient computer aided mass classification method in digitized mammograms using Artificial Neural Network (ANN), which performs benign-malignant classification on region of interest (ROI) that contains mass.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Mohammed J. Islam , Majid Ahmadi , Maher A. Sid-Ahmed