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Malignancy and Abnormality Detection of Mammograms using Classifier Ensembling

Keywords: Breast Cancer, Mammogram, Support Vector Machine, Discrete Wavelet Transforms, Ensemble Classifier.

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 30 ,  Issue 3

Nawazish   Naveed , Muhammad  Arfan  Jaffar , Faisal  Karim  Shaikh ,

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