Figure 2. An illustrative example showing segmentation of microcalcifications in a mammogram of the left breast of a 56-year-old patient with ductal carcinoma in situ.

(a) The mediolateral oblique (MLO) view shows clustered coarse and low density microcalcifications (indicated by thin arrows). (b) The image shows the region of suspicious microcalcifications(indicated by thin arrows). (c) The segmented microcalcifications from (b) are used to characterize the features.