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DDSM

The Digital Database for Screening Mammography [67] of the University of South Florida is a huge database of digitized mammograms available online.

The database is divided into $ 43$ volumes, and each volume is divided in a number of studies. The grouping factor is the study final diagnosis: volumes with normal cases, volumes with cases containing benign abnormalities, and volumes containing cases with cancerous abnormalities. In total, there are $ 2620$ cases, and each case corresponds to the MLO and CC views of both woman breasts, along with some associated patient information (age, breast density, rating and keyword description for abnormalities) and image information (scanner, spatial resolution, ...). Moreover, images containing suspicious areas have associated ``ground truth'' information about the locations and types of suspicious regions.



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Arnau Oliver 2008-06-17