PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a targeted educational intervention to increase mammography screening among Chinese American women. DESIGN One-group pre- and post-test quasiexperimental design. SETTING Metropolitan areas of Portland, OR. SAMPLE 44 foreign-born Chinese American women aged 40 years and older. METHODS Participants who had not had a mammogr...

Breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a preinvasive form of breast cancer. It typically presents as microcalcifications which are picked up on screening mammogram. We report an atypical case of breast DCIS presenting with recurrent non-puerperal mastitis with a normal mammogram and perform a literature review.

A methodology that detects the breast mass from MLO and CC projection of mammogram images was proposed. It involves feature extraction from the given image set and find the component location value. Then breast mass in single view is figured out which is then merged to get a 3D view of the location breast mass in the mammogram image.

Breast cancer is one of the dreadful diseases that seriously affect women. It is proven that this dreadful disease ends the life of one among ten women. Mammogram is an efficient technique to detect breast cancer at earlier stages. This paper aims to survey image enhancement and segmentation on mammograms. Mammogram image segmentation aims at partitioning the image into meaningful Regions of In...

Abstract— Mammogram analysis usually refers to processing of mammograms with the goal of finding abnormality presented in the mammogram. Mammogram segmentation is one of the most critical tasks in automatic mammogram image analysis. Main purpose of mammogram segmentation is to segment suspicious regions by means of an adaptive threshold. In image processing, one of the most efficient techniques...

The aim of this paper is to review existing approaches of preprocessing in mammographic images. The objective of preprocessing is to improve the quality of the image and make it ready for further processing by removing the irrelevant noise and unwanted parts in the background of the mammogram. There are different of methods of preprocessing a mammogram image. Their advantages and disadvantages ...

BACKGROUND The role of vitamin D in breast cancer etiology is unclear. There is some, but inconsistent, evidence that vitamin D is associated with both breast cancer risk and mammographic density (MD). We evaluated the associations of MD with month the mammogram was taken, and with vitamin D intake, in a population of women from Norway--a country with limited sunlight exposure for a large part ...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective observational study was designed to answer the following question: Is mammography clinically effective in the evaluation of women </=35 years old with breast symptoms or findings. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review was undertaken of 1908 consecutive initial mammogram reports of symptomatic women </=35 years old who came to a referral breast clinic. The clinic rec...