The overall objective is to develop software algorithms using genetic programming, which can be loaded on to standard PCs, which are readily available at the customer's place of work.  The project is concentrating in architectural distortions & small satellite masses. It will also clarify parenchyma into the five Tabar classes to advance improvement in earlier diagnosis.
The algorithms themselves will be developed using a synthetic environment created by the researcher with the help of the Consultant Radiologist's notes and expertise; and using clinical information supplied by expert texts on breast cancer.  The process of developing genetically programmed algorithms takes place off-line, by analysing the data captured in the digitised images of, in this case, patients' breasts.  This allows the resulting algorithms to be simplified and implemented as efficient computer code.