Research Article

A Hybrid Image Filtering Method for Computer-Aided Detection of Microcalcification Clusters in Mammograms

Table 1

Experimental results of MCs detection.

MethodsTP (True Positive)FPs (False positives)/image

Difference-of-Gaussians- (DoG-) based method [13]60%1.2
Image-difference-technique- (IDT-) based method [9]70%1.5
Neural network-based method [20]70%1.1
Wavelet-based method [14]75%1.5
Support-vector-machine- (SVM-) based method [8]90%1.3
Weighted-local-differences-based method [32]70%1.9
Texture-coding-based method [33]95%4.3
Proposed method 92.9%0.08