Increased Mammogram Image Contrast Using Histogram Equalization And Gaussian In The Classification Of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is one of the most common diseases among women in several countries. One of the most common methods to diagnose breast cancer is mammography. In this study, we propose a classification study to differentiate benign and malignant breast tumors based on mammogram image. The proposed system includes five major steps, i.e. preprocessing, histogram equalization, convolution, feature extraction, and classification. Image is cropped using region of interest (ROI) at preprocessing stage. In this study, we perform image contrast quality enhancement of the mammogram to view the breast cancer better. Image contrast enhancement uses histogram equalization and Gaussian filter. Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) is used to extract the mammogram features. There are five features used i.e. entropy, correlation, contrast, homogeneity, and variance. The last step is to classify using naive Bayes classifier (NBC) and k-nearest neighbor (KNN). Based on the hypothesis, the accuracy of NBC method is 90% and the accuracy of KKN method is 87.5%. So, the mammogram image contrast enhancement is well performed.