Digital mammogram has emerged as the most popular screening technique for early detection of breast cancer and other abnormalities in human breast tissue. It provides us opportunities to develop algorithms for computer aided detection (CAD). In this paper we have proposed three distinct steps. The initial step involves contrast enhancement by using the contrast limited adaptive histogram equali...

Noise present in the digital mammograms directly influences the capability and competence of a classification task which makes de-noising a challenging problem. In the literature, few wavelets like daubechies db3 and haar have been used for de-noising medical images. Nevertheless, wavelet filters such as sym8, dB3, dB4, haar and Coif1 at certain level of soft and hard threshold functions have n...

Mammogram registration can help avoid biopsies and help follow-up analysis. Mammogram registration is a challenge because of the compressibility of the breast tissue. We used the CIRS breast phantom image to study the registration methodology. The phantom images were acquired in Fused Full Field Digital Mammogram and Ultrasound (FFDMUS) framework. The acquired images were registered using our p...

Computer aided diagnostic systems can assist radiologist in detecting breast cancer at an early stage with improved mammogram interpretation efficiency. In this paper, six fractal based features obtained from the fractal dimension computed using differential box counting method, are used for distinguishing between normal mammograms from the cancerous ones. The new fractal feature f6 derived fro...

Computer aided diagnosis systems provide vital opinion to radiologists in the detection of early signs of breast cancer from mammogram images. Architectural distortions, masses and microcalcifications are the major abnormalities. In this paper, a computer aided diagnosis system has been proposed for distinguishing abnormal mammograms with architectural distortion from normal mammogram. Four typ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis is becoming a clinically attractive modality based on its potential to combine the high resolution and high contrast images, and affordability of digital mammography, with the advantages of 3D image acquisition. In order to facilitate comparison of tomosynthesis images with previous mammographic exams of the same women, there is a need for a method of registering a ...