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Detection of breast cancer masses in mammogram images is an essential step in any computer-aided system for breast cancer diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for breast cancer masses detection in mammograms based on the feature matching of different regions using Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER). Firstly, a pre-processing step is applied to the original mammogram image to...