Access to healthcare is essential in the pursuit of universal health coverage. Components of access are availability, accessibility (spatial and non-spatial), affordability and acceptability. Measuring spatial accessibility is common approach to evaluating access to health care. This study aimed to determine the availability and spatial accessibility of subsidised mammogram screening in Peninsu...

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 digital mammography. Extraction of the breast profile region and the removal of pectoral muscle are essential pre-processing steps in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD...

In this paper authors have made an attempt to classify the breast tissue based on the intensity level of histogram of a mmammogram,Statistical features of a mammogram are extrcted using simple image processing techniques.The proposed scheme uses texture models to capture the mammographic appearance within the breast. Parenchymal density patterns are modeled as a statistical distribution of clus...

This paper presents a new method for detecting clusters of microcalcifications in highresolution digital mammograms. Using cluster analysis, we have designed a descriptive set of mammogram image features which enables precise recognition of microcalcifications. These features are fed into the Support Vector Machine classifier trained to discriminate between normal image occlusions and deposits ...

OBJECTIVE To compare new full-field digital mammography (FFDM) with and without use of an advanced post-processing algorithm to improve image quality, lesion detection, diagnostic performance, and priority rank. MATERIALS AND METHODS During a 22-month period, we prospectively enrolled 100 cases of specimen FFDM mammography (Brestige®), which was performed alone or in combination with a post-p...

This article summarises the information to be offered to women about mammography. After a delineation of the aim of early diagnosis of breast cancer, the difference between screening mammography and diagnostic mammography is explained. The need to bring images and reports from the previous mammogram (and from other recent breast imaging examinations) is highlighted. Mammography technique and pr...

High quality mammogram images are high resolution and large size images. Processing these images require high computational capabilities. The transmission of these images over the net is sometimes critical especially if the diagnosis of remote radiologists is required. In this paper, a preprocessing technique for reducing the size and enhancing the quality of USF and MIAS mammogram images is in...

In this paper, computer-aided detection and enhancement of microcalci cations in mammogram images are considered. The mammogram image is rst decomposed into subimages using a 'subband' decomposition lter bank which uses nonlinear lters. A suitably identi ed subimage is divided into overlapping square regions in which skewness and kurtosis as measures of the asymmetry and impulsiveness of the di...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to develop a new method for automated mass detection in digital mammographic images using templates. MATERIALS AND METHODS Masses were detected using a two steps process. First, the pixels in the mammogram images were scanned in 8 directions, and regions of interest (ROI) were identified using various thresholds. Then, a mass template was used to catego...