Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death by cancer among American women.
Presently, a great deal of research is being conducted on the development of APR schemes for reading mammograms. These measures, however, do not indicate the effects of compression on specific APR techniques. To reach this goal, we are analytically and empirically assessing the scalar-dependence of traditional shape features. We are developing distortion measures for compressed images where the distortion is with respect to feature extraction. Currently, we are conducting a pilot study for the research described above, namely, the assessment of the scalar dependence of shape features.