BACKGROUND Expert groups and national guidelines recommend individualized decision making about screening mammography for women in their 40s at low-to-average risk of breast cancer. We created Breast Screening Decisions (BSD), a personalized, web-based decision aid, to help women decide when to start and how often to have routine screening mammograms. We evaluated BSD in a large, prospective pi...

Digital mammogram has become the most effective technique for early breast cancer detection modality. Digital mammogram takes an electronic image of the breast and stores it directly in a computer. High quality mammogram images are high resolution and large size images. Processing these images require high computational capabilities. The transmission of these images over the net is sometimes cr...

A digital mammogram generally detects varying degrees of breast cancer such as clustered microcalcifications, speculated lesions, circumscribed masses, ill-defined masses, and architectural distortions. Many methods of analysing digital mammograms have been recently examined and yielded varied success. Common techniques from the field of image processing have been applied to digital mammograms ...

Lymphocytic mastitis, or diabetic mastopathy, is an unusual finding in early-onset and long-standing diabetes. It can presents as a non-tender or tender palpable breast mass. Mammogram and ultrasound frequently demonstrate findings suspicious of malignancy, thus biopsy and histological confirmation is usually required. We reviewed two cases of lymphocytic mastitis with characteristics findings ...

-The image mining technique deals with the extraction of implicit knowledge and image with data relationship or other patterns not explicitly stored in the images. It is an extension of data mining to image domain. The main objective of this paper is to apply image mining in the domain such as breast mammograms to classify and detect the cancerous tissue. Mammogram image can be classified into ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis combines the advantages of digital mammography and 3D breast imaging. To facilitate the comparison of new tomosynthesis images with previous mammographic exams of the same woman, there is a need for a method to register a mammogram with tomosynthetic images of the same breast; this is the focus of our paper. We have chosen to approach this multimodality registration...

Computer aided diagnosis systems provide vital opinion to radiologists in the detection of early signs of breast cancer from mammogram images. Architectural distortions, masses and microcalcifications are the major abnormalities. In this paper, a computer aided diagnosis system has been proposed for distinguishing abnormal mammograms with architectural distortion from normal mammogram. Four typ...

In the United States, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women and the second leading cause of cancer death. Lack of health insurance coverage often is an important financial barrier to seeking preventive health care such as mammography screenings. To assess mammography use and the impact of insurance status on mammography use, state-specific proportions of women aged...