Enhance the Mammogram Images for Both Segmentation and Feature Extraction Using Wavelet Transform

Breast cancer (BC) is a main killer disease for women and men. It can be cured and controlled only if it is detected at its early detection. BC initial identification can be realized by the help of computer support identification approaches. From the detailed study on previous researches, it is found that, there is no system producing high accuracy because of one or more reasons. Absence of effective preprocessing is the discussed reason that obstructs the detection accuracy of Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) method. Noise removal and contrast enhancement are the two types of preprocessing. There is no system performs the preprocessing on mammogram image. This work is an attempt to develop an enhanced preprocessing method for CAD of breast cancer by incorporating suitable noise reduction and contrast enhancement methods in the conventional CAD system. Contrast enhancement after noise reduction double enhances the mammogram image and the proposed methods MSE value for the mammogram image mdb072 has been 1.44% reduced. Reduction in MSE increases the PSNR to 0.16%. Many mammogram images have been tested and the result shows that, increase in contrast, decrease in mean square error and increase in peak signal to noise ratio when comparing to existing methods.