A review of breast tissue classification in mammograms
Gensheng Zhang, Wei Wang, Jucheol Moon, Jeong Ki Pack, Soon‐Ik Jeon · 2011
For women in the U.S. breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer besides skin cancer and has become one of the major health issues in recent decades. Early detection through screening is one of key factors to reduce the death rates. The strong correlation between abnormality of breast tissues presented in mammograms and breast cancer shows that radiologists could benefit from Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems with abilities of automated breast tissueclassification. This paper reviews recent advances in classification technologies of breast tissues. The major contribution of this paper is that we extensivelydiscuss recent breast tissue classification technologie sand compare three different types of approaches. According to our survey, we found that machine learning approaches could be chosen as anappropriate classification technology for a CAD system, considering efficiency and compatibility.