Detection of Mass in Digital Mammograms
K. Vennila, K.Sivakami K.Sivakami, R.Padmapriya R.Padmapriya · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2014
Breast Cancer is considered as one of the major causes for the increase in mortality among women.Computerized Mammography helps radiologists as a second reader in diagnosing the abnormalities.This paper aims to detect the masses of the Digital Mammograms.In this approach, the mammogram is subjected to morphological pre-processing, artifacts removal, pectoral muscle segmentation using seeded region growing algorithm.Finally the mass is detected by using Otsu thresholding.The proposed method was tested with Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database.