Computer-aided detection and diagnosis of breast cancer with mammography: recent advances

J Tang, RM Rangayyan, J Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast cancer is the second-most common and leading cause of cancer death among
women. It has become a major health issue in the world over the past 50 years, and its …

A review of computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer: Toward the detection of subtle signs

RM Rangayyan, FJ Ayres, JEL Desautels - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2007 - Elsevier
Mammography is the best available tool for screening for the early detection of breast
cancer. Mammographic screening has been shown to be effective in reducing breast cancer …

Approaches for automated detection and classification of masses in mammograms

HD Cheng, XJ Shi, R Min, LM Hu, XP Cai, HN Du - Pattern recognition, 2006 - Elsevier
Breast cancer continues to be a significant public health problem in the world. Early
detection is the key for improving breast cancer prognosis. Mammography has been one of …

[BUCH][B] Biomedical image analysis

RM Rangayyan - 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
Computers have become an integral part of medical imaging systems and are used for
everything from data acquisition and image generation to image display and analysis. As the …

Nonlinear unsharp masking for mammogram enhancement

K Panetta, Y Zhou, S Agaian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a new unsharp masking (UM) scheme, called nonlinear UM (NLUM),
for mammogram enhancement. The NLUM offers users the flexibility 1) to embed different …

Contrast enhancement and brightness preserving of digital mammograms using fuzzy clipped contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization algorithm

S Jenifer, S Parasuraman, A Kadirvelu - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
A novel fuzzy logic and histogram based algorithm called Fuzzy Clipped Contrast-Limited
Adaptive Histogram Equalization (FC-CLAHE) algorithm is proposed for enhancing the local …

Histogram modified local contrast enhancement for mammogram images

M Sundaram, K Ramar, N Arumugam, G Prabin - Applied soft computing, 2011 - Elsevier
Early detection of breast cancer in the mammograms is very essential in the field of
medicine. Contrast enhancement of mammograms based on Histogram Equalization (HE) is …

A direct image contrast enhancement algorithm in the wavelet domain for screening mammograms

J Tang, X Liu, Q Sun - IEEE Journal of selected topics in signal …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In breast cancer diagnosis, the radiologists mainly use their eyes to discern cancer when
they screen the mammograms. However, in many cases, cancer is not easily detected by the …

Improvement of microcalcification cluster detection in mammography utilizing image enhancement techniques

A Papadopoulos, DI Fotiadis, L Costaridou - Computers in biology and …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this work, the effect of an image enhancement processing stage and the parameter tuning
of a computer-aided detection (CAD) system for the detection of microcalcifications in …

Mammographic image enhancement using indirect contrast enhancement techniques–a comparative study

K Akila, LS Jayashree, A Vasuki - Procedia Computer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Contrast enhancement is an important issue in the field of mammographic image
processing. It can be classified into two categories: direct contrast enhancement and in …