ABSTRACT
Breast cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer in women [1-3]. Detecting the disease in its early stages increases the rate of survival and improves the quality of patient life [4, 5]. Mammography is currently the technique with the highest sensitivity available for early detection of breast cancer on asymptomatic women. Detection of early signs of disease, such as microcalcifications (MCs) and masses in mammography programs, is a particularly demanding task for radiologists. This is attributed to the high volume of images reviewed as well as the low-contrast character of mammographic imaging, especially in the case of dense breast, accounting for about 25% of the younger female population [6, 7].
