Cancer is the second cause of mortality worldwide and it has been identified as a perilous
disease. Breast cancer accounts for∼ 20% of all new cancer cases worldwide, making it a …

Radiologists worldwide use mammography as a reliable tool for breast cancer screening.
However, mammography assessment is challenging even for well-trained radiologists …

Radiologists assess the results of mammography, the key screening tool for the detection of
breast cancer, to determine the presence of malignancy. They, routinely, compare recent …

Objective: Cancer remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with 1 in 5 of all
new cancers arising in the breast. The introduction of mammography for the radiological …

Breast density is a known risk factor for breast cancer. Here two classes of texture features,
one based on textons derived from local pixel intensity variation and one based on oriented …

This paper presents a method for incorporating fuzzy sets based spatial relations in
registering temporal mammogram pairs. In the proposed method, four spatial relations, to …

This introductory chapter is intended to provide the context for this thesis. The incidence of
breast cancer is reviewed in Section 1.1 and the role and modalities of breast cancer …

This paper presents a method to extract change information from temporal mammogram
pairs and to incorporate the temporal change information in the malignant mass …