Inspec keywords: feature extraction; cancer; image texture; image classification; mammography; medical image processing

Other keywords: superpixels; malignant masses; dense background; normal dense breast regions; breast masses; structured superpixel patterns; overlapped normal dense tissues; local binary pattern technique; superpixel texture analysis

Subjects: Biology and medical computing; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Other topics in statistics; X-rays and particle beams (medical uses); X-ray techniques: radiography and computed tomography (biomedical imaging/measurement); Optical, image and video signal processing; Computer vision and image processing techniques