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Digital mammograms are used as the most effective imaging modalities for the diagnosis of breast cancer. However, mammography images suffer from low contrast, background noise as well as contrast as non-coherency among the regions, and these factors makes breast cancer diagnosis challenging. These problems can be overcome by using a new image enhancement technique. The objective of this research work is to enhance mammography images to improve the overall process of segmentation and classification of breast cancer diagnosis. We proposed the image enhancement for mammogram images, as well as the ablation of the pectoral muscle. The image enhancement technique involves several steps. In the first step, we process the mammography images in three channels (red, green and blue), the second step is based on the uniformity of the background on morphological operations, and the third step is to obtain a well-contrasted image using principal component analysis (PCA). The fourth step is based on the removal of the pectoral muscle using a seed-based region growth technique, and the last step contains the coherence of the different regions of the image using a second order Gaussian Laplacian (LoG) and an oriented diffusion filter to obtain a much-improved contrast image. The proposed image enhancement technique is tested with our data collected from different hospitals in Qassim health cluster Qassim province Saudi Arabia, and it contains the five Breast Imaging and Reporting System (BI-RADS) categories and this database contained 11,194 images (the images contain carnio-caudal (CC) view and mediolateral oblique(MLO) view of mammography images), and we used approximately 700 images to validate our database. We have achieved improved performance in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio, contrast, and effective measurement of enhancement (EME) as well as our proposed image enhancement technique outperforms existing image enhancement methods. This performance of our proposed method demonstrates the ability to improve the diagnostic performance of the computerized breast cancer detection method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22051868","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,27]],"date-time":"2022-02-27T20:48:33Z","timestamp":1645994913000},"page":"1868","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":31,"title":["Impact of Image Enhancement Module for Analysis of Mammogram Images for Diagnostics of Breast Cancer"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7046-5311","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yassir Edrees","family":"Almalki","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Division of Radiology, Medical College, Najran University, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8560-0026","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Toufique Ahmed","family":"Soomro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Larkana Campus, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah 67450, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4161-6875","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Irfan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0810-9337","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sharifa Khalid","family":"Alduraibi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah 52571, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2645-7258","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ahmed","family":"Ali","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Eletrical Engineering Department, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur 65200, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"E359","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.29210","article-title":"Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in globocan 2012","volume":"136","author":"Ferlay","year":"2015","journal-title":"Int. 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