A Comparative Study on the Methods Used for the Detection of Breast Cancer

Abstract

Among women in the world, the death caused by the Breast cancer has become the leading role. At an initial stage, the tumor in the breast is hard to detect. Manual attempt have proven to be time consuming and inefficient in many cases. Hence there is a need for efficient methods that diagnoses the cancerous cell without human involvement with high accuracy. Mammography is a special case of CT scan which adopts X-ray method with high resolution film. so that it can detect well the tumors in the breast. This paper describes the comparative study of the various data mining methods on the detection of the breast cancer by using image processing techniques