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Figure 2a. Example of rubber-band-straightening transform for extraction of texture features in the margin region surrounding a mass. (a) Original and (b) background-corrected images showing the region of interest with the mass, (c) mammogram showing an outline of the segmented mass, and (d) rubber-band-straightening-transformed image of a 40-pixel-wide region surrounding the segmented mass.