background: alcohol consumption is one of the main health problems in most countries. the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the reliability and validity of alcohol use disorders identification test (audit). methods: by employing the method of available sampling, 70 alcoholic patients were included as case group and 70 normal age, gender and education matched individuals were also incl...

introduction:  breast  cancer  is  a  leading  cause  of  death  among  females  throughout  the  world.  currently,  radiologists are able to detect only 75% of breast cancer cases. making use of computer-aided design (cad)  can play an important role in helping radiologists perform more accurate diagnoses.   material and methods: using our hybrid method, the background and the pectoral muscle...

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...

We present a method to prompt a clinician to "suspicious" dense regions in temporal mammogram sequences. The particular context that we envisage is mammogram screening, when the clinician compares the most recent mammogram to previous ones in order to detect significant changes. The method uses anisotropic filtering as a pre-processing step in order to significantly reduce the number of candida...