Abstract: Background: Breast cancer can be cured if diagnosed early, with digital mammography which is one of the most effective imaging modalities for early breast cancer detection. However mammogram images often come with low contrast, high background noises and artifacts, all these things making diagnosis difficult. The purpose of this paper is to preprocessing digital mammogram images to improve results with a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system. In this paper we have proposed three distinct methods:image processing to removing unwanted objects method;
a breast border detection and segmentation method; and a pectoral muscle detection and suppression method.
Materials and Methods: The presented method in this paper applied image contour extraction technique by computer technology in.......
Key Word: Mammogram images, Breast Border, Pectoral Muscle, Segmentation, Breast Contour
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