Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. The conventional visual-inspection method for early breast-cancer detection is impractical, non reproducible, and may bestows ambiguous results. Early detection of breast-cancer greatly improves the chance of survival. Therefore, a fully automated, accurate, and reliable computerized method it highly needed. This book, therefore, provides a new metric of success of CAD system for detecting abnormal regions on mammogram using image processing technique. Two methods have been used to achieve this objective and was the first method is...