Breast Cancer-Analytic Analysis

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-. Breast cancer is curable if detected in early stage. Calcium deposit can also indicate the existence of a tumour in breast. MRI is one of the efficient tools to detect breast cancer before clinical symptoms appears. Several type of features can be extracted from MRI images such as position feature, shape feature and texture features . Feature extraction of image is important in MRI classification. These features are extracted by using image processing. Texture features have proven to be useful in differentiating normal and abnormal cells. Extracted texture features provide information about textural characteristics of the image. We extract Quantitative parameters such as depth, size, shape, margin, heterogeneity of signal intensity from

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