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Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignant disease among women. Due to the rapid advancement in the field of ultrasound and image processing, the usage of ultrasound in conjunction with physical and mammography examination is now preferred in order to obtain a thorough breast examination. This paper focusses on developing an expert system based on mammographic and ultrasound images that may be used by expert and non-expert doctors in the diagnoses of breast diseases . This package consists of a mammographic and breast ultrasound medical expert system which can be used to deduce cases based upon mammograms and breast ultrasound images. The expert system requires the user to answer multiple guided questions before arriving at the final conclusions with the ability to call upon the patients’ images whenever referrals are needed. There also exists an incorporated knowledge base explanations for each question posted and a medical glossary which helps the user to better understand medical terms, questions and answers displayed. Borland C++ Builder was utilized to develop this work so that the package could be integrated with digital image processing modules that may help to accentuate images to aid analyzing procedures.
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Ngah, U.K., Ping, C.C., Aziz, S.A. (2004). Mammographic Image and Breast Ultrasound Based Expert System for Breast Diseases. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30132-5_83
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