Computer-aided detection/diagnosis of breast cancer in mammography and ultrasound: a review

A Jalalian, SBT Mashohor, HR Mahmud, MIB Saripan… - Clinical imaging, 2013 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women worldwide. Early detection
of breast cancer can increase treatment options and patients' survivability. Mammography is …

Computer-aided breast cancer detection using mammograms: a review

K Ganesan, UR Acharya, CK Chua… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends women aged 40 and above to have a
mammogram every year and calls it a gold standard for breast cancer detection. Early …

Real-time fire detection for video-surveillance applications using a combination of experts based on color, shape, and motion

P Foggia, A Saggese, M Vento - IEEE TRANSACTIONS on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a method that is able to detect fires by analyzing videos acquired
by surveillance cameras. Two main novelties have been introduced. First, complementary …

ANN vs. SVM: Which one performs better in classification of MCCs in mammogram imaging

J Ren - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
Classification of microcalcification clusters from mammograms plays essential roles in
computer-aided diagnosis for early detection of breast cancer, where support vector …

[PDF][PDF] Computer-aided detection and diagnosis in mammography

MP Sampat, MK Markey, AC Bovik - Handbook of image and …, 2005 - mammoimage.org
The American Cancer Society estimates that 215,990 women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer in the United States in 2004 [1]. Another 40,110 women will die of the disease. In the …

Quo Vadis, Atlas-Based Segmentation?

T Rohlfing, R Brandt, R Menzel, DB Russakoff… - Handbook of Biomedical …, 2005 - Springer
There are many ways to segment an image, that is, to assign a semantic label to each of its
pixels or voxels. Different segmentation techniques use different types of image information …

A survey of image processing algorithms in digital mammography

J Bozek, M Mustra, K Delac, M Grgic - Recent advances in multimedia …, 2009 - Springer
Mammography is at present the best available technique for early detection of breast cancer.
The most common breast abnormalities that may indicate breast cancer are masses and …

Microcalcification classification assisted by content-based image retrieval for breast cancer diagnosis

L Wei, Y Yang, RM Nishikawa - Pattern recognition, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a microcalcification classification scheme, assisted by content-
based mammogram retrieval, for breast cancer diagnosis. We recently developed a machine …

Texture analysis of tissue surrounding microcalcifications on mammograms for breast cancer diagnosis

A Karahaliou, S Skiadopoulos, I Boniatis… - The British journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Diagnosis of microcalcifications (MCs) is challenged by the presence of dense breast
parenchyma, resulting in low specificity values and thus in unnecessary biopsies. The …

Multiresolution mammogram analysis in multilevel decomposition

EA Rashed, IA Ismail, SI Zaki - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2007 - Elsevier
A multiresolution analysis system for interpreting digital mammograms is proposed and
tested. This system is based on using fractional amount of biggest wavelets coefficients in …