It is a fact that breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the western
world. The most reliable radiographic tool for the detection and diagnosis of breast
cancer is mammography. Interpreting a mammographic image is a difficult task and
prone to many errors, thus physicists-radiologists are trained very well. Many CAD
(computer-aided detection) systems have been developed in order to provide
assistance to radiologists by classifying any mammographic lesions as benign or
malignant but their reliability is yet to be proved. The most accurate way of spotting
masses on the breast, until now, is radiologist’s opinion, making their training even
more crucial. In this paper a method which simulates all the possible masses and place
them on a mammography randomly using Monte Carlo technique, is proposed. After a
comprehensive study of many different mammographic images, the final algorithm
generates masses within a mammography, which in most cases a radiologist expert
could not make the difference between a real mass and a generated one. The proposed
method takes into account as many as possible variables for the generation of masses.
There are definitely some improvements that could be developed in the future, mostly
regarding the position of masses within the breast.