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Clustered microcalcifications (MCs) are detected in digital mammograms using SUSAN edge detector and adaptive contrast thresholding technique. MC clusters are found using spatial filters. Based on that a computer aided diagnostic prompting system is developed which achieves 97.4 % of true positive clusters at very low false positive rates according to the trial of 100 patches with the signs of both benign and malignant nature taken from the DDSM database mammograms
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Veni, G., Regentova, E.E., Zhang, L. (2008). Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications with SUSAN Edge Detector, Adaptive Contrast Thresholding and Spatial Filters. In: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69812-8_83
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