Segmentation of the Breast Region in Digital Mammograms and Detection of Masses
Armen Sahakyan, Hakop Sarukhanyan · International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications · 2012
The mammography is the most effective procedure for an early diagnosis of the breast cancer. Finding an accurate and efficient breast region segmentation technique still remains a challenging problem in digital mammography. In this paper we explore an automated technique for mammogram segmentation. The proposed algorithm uses morphological preprocessing algorithm in order to: remove digitization noises and separate background region from the breast profile region for further edge detection and regions segmentation.