Identification of Abnormalities in Mammograms using CUDA Platform

Asad Parvez (604013)

Maharashtra Institute of Technology (M.I.T), Pune.
M.E. Electronics (Digital Systems)
Email id: asad.apms@gmail.com
Mobile No: 9028177296
Abstract
Digital mammogram has become the most effective technique for early breast cancer
detection. The aim of this study is to develop an algorithm suitable for automated system for
assisting the analysis of digital mammograms. Many image processing techniques have been
developed over the past two decades to help radiologists in diagnosing breast cancer. At the same
time, many studies have proven that an early diagnosis of breast cancer can increase the survival
rate. Radiologists have to examine a large number of images. Use of normal and abnormal
mammograms from a standard database like Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS)
database is proposed to develop and test the algorithm. Computer image processing techniques
will be applied to enhance images (Pre-processing). The texture features will be used to classify
the region of interest ROIs as either normal or abnormal. The extraction of the textural features
of ROIs is done by using gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) which is constructed at four
different directions for each ROI. It is expected that the GLCM at 0, 45, 90 and 135 with a
block size of 8x8 will give significant texture information to classify tissues as normal and
abnormal tissues. The overall accuracy can be improved by most relevant GLCM features, which
are selected by feature selection algorithm.
In the proposed algorithm a large image is divided into many small size blocks and
similar processing steps are applied to all blocks. This leads to large number of computations and
greater time. For improving time efficiency, computations can be done using CPU and GPU
both. The less Computationally complex part is to be done on CPU and GPU is to be used where
parallel programming is possible. It provides efficient and fast response. Thus, this approach is
suitable for automated real-time breast cancer diagnosis system.

Project Guide
Prof. A. C. Phadke