SVM and Neural Networks comparison in mammographic CAD

The purpose of this work is to compare the performance of support vector machines (SVM) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) in the task of detection and diagnosis of microcalcification clusters in mammograms (MCCs). As data source, the "digital database for screening mammography"; (DDSM) was used. The results show a similar performance for SVM and MLP, in both tasks, detection and diagnosis (slightly better for MLP in detection).