A Review of Breast Cancer Detection in Medical Images

Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the glandular epithelium of the breast. It is considered to be one of the most common cancers affecting women in the world. However, there is not an effective way to cure breast cancer yet, the key to reducing the risk of death is the early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. Accurate diagnosis of breast cancer normally requires analysis of medical images of different modalities. There is a great need of automated system that could analyze these images accurately and rapidly. In this paper, we introduce some commonly used medical imaging methods for diagnosis of breast cancer, and based on them we investigate some recently proposed approaches for breast cancer detection with computer vision and machine learning techniques. Finally, we compare and analyze the detection performance of different methods on histological images and mammograph images respectively.