A New Local Adaptive Mass Detection Algorithm in Mammograms

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Abstract

Mammography is the most effective procedure for an early detection of breast abnormalities . Masses are a type of abnormality which are very difficult to be visually detected on mammograms . In this paper an efficient method for detection of masses in mammograms is introduced and tested . The algorithm is inspired by binary search and was evaluated both on mini - MIAS and INBreast databases . Mini - MIAS results show that our algorithm outperforms other competing methods . For INBreast database there are no other published mass detection results for comparison , but we believe that our algorithm has good performance .

Keywords

Detection,Mamograms,Masses

Conference

International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS) 2010

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