Abstract
Mammography is an effective method for breast cancer detection and breast tumor analysis. In mammography, low dose x-ray is used for imaging, due to which the images are poor in contrast and are contaminated by noise. Hence it is difficult for the radiologist to screen the mammograms for diagnostic signs such as micro calcifications and masses. This ensures the need for image enhancement to aid radiologist. In this paper we present a different algorithm for enhancement of digital mammographic images. The proposed methodology uses mathematical morphology for contrast enhancement and wavelet for denoising. The main contribution of this paper is in differentiating the edge pixels from noise. A quantitative measure of Contrast Improvement Index (CII) and Edge Preservation Index (EPI) are used to evaluate the performance of the algorithm. The algorithm has been tested on a large number of images from standard dataset, comparing the results with the state-of-the- art. By both the analytical indices and ROC analysis, the proposed algorithm shows promising results in early detection of breast cancer and diagnosis.
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