• DocumentCode
    2569655
  • Title

    Feature extraction values for breast cancer mammography images

  • Author

    Al-Shamlan, Hala ; El-Zaart, Ali

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-18 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    335
  • Lastpage
    340
  • Abstract
    Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among woman of the developing countries in the world, and it has also become a major cause of death. Treatment of breast cancer is effective only if it is detected at an early stage. X-ray mammography is the most effective method for early detection but the mammography images are complex. Thus nowadays, image processing and image analysis techniques are use to assist radiologist for detecting tumors in mammography images. In this paper we specify and determined the important and significant Breast Cancer Feature Extraction. After that, we analyze Breast cancer mammography images using these significant features. However, the aim of this study is to determine the features extraction ranges values for Breast Cancer mammography image.
  • Keywords
    cancer; feature extraction; mammography; medical image processing; X-ray mammography; breast cancer mammography images; feature extraction values; image analysis; image processing; Breast cancer; Breast neoplasms; Cancer detection; Feature extraction; Image analysis; Image processing; Mammography; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors; X-ray imaging; Breast Cancer; Breast Digital Image; Feature Extraction; Mammography Image; Mammography Image Processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology (ICBBT), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6775-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICBBT.2010.5478947
  • Filename
    5478947