Design of a MATLAB-based system to aid in the identification and evaluation of breast lesions in mammograms

The purpose of this project is to design and build a MATLAB-based system to aid in the identification and evaluation of breast lesions in mammograms. A graphical user interface will be created using MATLAB and will require user interaction to crop and enhance the mammography images as the user identifies and evaluates a lesion´s need for further clinical evaluation. The program will allow a user to choose amongst various options to identify and evaluate a lesion based on its properties. Once the lesion´s characteristics are known, the program will output a recommended course of action. To validate that the program is working correctly, test cases have been designed to test all possible combinations of user input. The validation will include mammography images from the McGill University database and from Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, MA. This system could potentially be used as a teaching tool for evaluating mammograms within the Biomedical Engineering Department´s medical imaging courses at Western New England College.