A Detailed Investigation on Reduction of False Positive Rate in Breast Cancer Detection

Abstract

Breast cancer is known as the most common form of cancer in Indian women and is about 14% of woman cancer. Thus a detailed investigation is done to improve the level of screening mechanisms and accuracy of breast cancer detection in Computer Aided Diagnosis system. The initial level of screening of breast can be performed using thermography and then the suggestions can be provided for necessity of further screening using mammography for cancer detection. If the presence of breast cancer is confirmed using mammograms, to address the high false positive rate with mammograms, the same patient can be examined again with biopsy images for further confirmation of the presence of breast cancer. Thus a detailed investigation on employability of various modalities for the breast cancer uncovering is conducted to minimize the false positive rate in breast cancer detection.