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Detection of Early Features of Cancer in
Mammography. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 260
Approximately one in nine women in the Western world
will develop breast cancer, making it one of the
most common and terrifying cancers. Screening
programs reduce the mortality rate, but introduce an
enormous amount of information that radiologists
must process on a daily basis. Computer-aided
diagnosis can assist clinicians sort through this
data and help detect and classify cancer. This
monograph introduces original results for the
detection of early features of breast cancer from X-
ray mammography analysis. Some of the earliest signs
of breast cancer are clusters of
microcalcifications, and a method for their
detection based on a model of the human visual
system is presented. The detection of breast masses
in temporal mammographic pairs is also investigated.
Image normalization and its benefits for cancer
detection is another key concept discussed in this
book, along with screening programs and other
imaging modalities for breast cancer detection. The
subject is of immense importance, not just to
radiologists and clinicians, but to physicists,
researchers, students and anyone who has been
touched by this terrible disease.
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