An Iris detector for tumoral masses identification in mammograms

Radiologists that analyze screening mammographic images miss the 10-20% of the diagnosis since this kind of images are very difficult to interpret. In this paper, we present the first step of a CADx (computer aided diagnosis) system that, from the original mammogram, extracts suspicious regions on which the radiologists have to focus their attention. The procedure often successes also in case of very low contrast, because it depends only on the orientation of the gradient vectors in the image but not on their amplitude.