期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
电子版ISSN：2229-6093
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：192-198
出版社：Technopark Publications
摘要：Mammography is the effective technology for early detection of breast cancer and breast tumour analysis. In mammography, low dose x-ray is used for imaging. Due to the low dose X-ray the images obtained from mammography are poor in contrast and are contaminated by noise. Hence it is difficult for the radiologist to screen the mammograms for any abnormalities like microcalcifications and masses. This ensures the need for image enhancement to aid radiologist for interpretation. This paper introduces a new enhancement method for digital mammographic images based on modified mathematical morphology and biorthogonal wavelet transform. In the proposed method we adopted a level dependent threshold for thresholding the detail coefficients of wavelet transform. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, Contrast Improvement Index (CII) and Edge Preservation Index (EPI) are used. Experimental results and performance analysis indicate that the proposed method consistently outperforms existing techniques.
