Background In digital mammography, finding accurate breast profile segmentation of
women's mammogram is considered a challenging task. The existence of the pectoral …

Removal of noise and pectoral muscles are the two important pre-processing steps in CAD
system for the diagnosis of breast cancer. This work combines Robust Outlyingness Ratio …

Mammograms are X-ray images of human breast which are normally used to detect breast
cancer. The presence of pectoral muscle in mammograms may disturb the detection of …

In medio-lateral oblique view of mammogram, pectoral muscle may sometimes affect the
detection of breast cancer due to their similar characteristics with abnormal tissues. As a …

In most of the approaches of computer‐aided detection of breast cancer, one of the
preprocessing steps applied to the mammogram is the removal/suppression of pectoral …

Automatic pectoral muscle removal on medio-lateral oblique (MLO) view of mammogram is
an essential step for many mammographic processing algorithms. However, it is still a very …

Mammograms are X-ray images, which are used in breast cancer detection. Automatic
pectoral muscle removal on Medio-Lateral Oblique-view (MLO) of mammograms is an …

Breast lesions early detection is the only key to reduce breast cancer mortality rate and
increase recovering chances. Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can assist …

Breast cancer continues to be the most prevalent cancer infecting humans worldwide.
Timely detection can assist in the reduction of both mortality rates and treatment costs …

Pectoral Muscle (PM), a significant region in Medio-Lateral Oblique (MLO) view of
mammogram may adversely affect anomaly detection due to its resemblance to abnormal …