SuGAR: A Framework to Support Mammogram Diagnosis

In this paper we present a framework based on association-rules to help diagnosis of mammogram abnormalities. Our framework - SuGAR - combines low-level features automatically extracted from images with high-level knowledge gotten from specialists to mine association rules, suggesting possible diagnoses. Our framework is optimized, in the sense that it combines, in a single step, feature selection and discretization, reducing the mining complexity. The framework was applied to real datasets and the results show high sensitivity (up to 95%) and accuracy (up to 92%), allowing us to claim that association rules can effectively aid in the diagnosing task.