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DETECTION OF MICROCALCIFICATION IN DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS USING ONE DIMENSIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORM
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Mammography is the most efficient method for breast cancer early detection. Clusters of microcalcifications are the early sign of breast cancer and their detection is the key to improve prognosis of breast cancer. Microcalcifications appear in mammogram image as tiny localized granular points, which is often difficult to detect by naked eye because of their small size. Automatic and accurately detection of microcalcifications has received much more attention from radiologists and physician. An efficient method for automatic detection of clustered microcalcifications in digitized mammograms is the use of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems. This paper presents a one dimensional wavelet-based multiscale products scheme for microcalcification detection in mammogram images. The detection of microcalcifications were achieved by decomposing the each line of mammograms by 1D wavelet transform into different frequency sub-bands, suppressing the low-frequency subband, and finally reconstructing the mammogram from the subbands containing only significant high frequencies features. The significant features are obtained by multiscale products. Preliminary results indicate that the proposed scheme is better in suppressing the background and detecting the microcalcification clusters than any other wavelet decomposition methods.

Authors
T. Balakumaran1, Ila. Vennila2, C. Gowrishankar3
Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India1, PSG college of Technology, India2, Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, India3

Keywords
Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD), One Dimensional Wavelet Transform, Multiscale Product, Microcalcification Detection
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ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing
( Volume: 1 , Issue: 2 , Pages: 99 - 104 )
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November 2010
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