Signal processing techniques for detection of breast diseases

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today and is the second most common cancer among women. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), about 1.3 million women will be diagnosed with breast cancer annually worldwide and about 465,000 will die from the disease. Breast cancer rates decreased around 2% between 1998 and 2007, according to the ACS. However, this decrease was only among women aged 50 and older. About 1 in 35 women die from breast cancer in the United States. Moreover, breast cancer can be easily treated if it is early detected by image analysis. The main theme of this issue is related with such advances on breast disease earlier detection.