An Evaluation of Contrast Enhancement Techniques for Mammographic Breast Masses
- 7 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
- Vol. 9 (1), 109-119
- https://doi.org/10.1109/titb.2004.837851
Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to propose a novel set of metrics that measure the quality of the image enhancement of mammographic images in a computer-aided detection framework aimed at automatically finding masses using machine learning techniques. Our methodology includes a novel mechanism for the combination of the metrics proposed into a single quantitative measure. We have evaluated our methodology on 200 images from the publicly available digital database for screening mammograms. We show that the quantitative measures help us select the best suited image enhancement on a per mammogram basis, which improves the quality of subsequent image segmentation much better than using the same enhancement method for all mammograms.Keywords
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