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| [6] | Local binary pattern (LBP) | Support vector machines (SVMs) | Classification of ROIs into mass/normal | 
| [7] | Histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) | SVM | Classification of ROIs into mass/normal | 
| [11] | Haralick’s features (HAR) | -nearest neighbour (-NN) | Microcalcification classification | 
| [8] | Gabor filters (GF) | Threshold-based approach | Breast cancer detection | 
| [29] | Grey levels, texture, and features related to independent component analysis | Neural network (NN) | Classifying ROIs into normal/abnormal Classifying ROIs into benign/malignant
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| [30] | A set of texture features | SVM | Mass detection | 
| [31] | Ripley’s  function texture measures | SVM | Detection of breast masses | 
| [9] | Texture features derived from  concurrence matrix | NN | Microcalcification classification | 
| [32] | A set of texture features | -NN, SVM, random forests, logistic model trees, and Naive Bayes | Lesion classification | 
| [10] | HAR | Bayesian classifier Fisher linear discriminant
 | Study the effect of pixel resolution  on the performance of texture methods | 
| [3] | LBP, robust LBP, centre symmetric LBP, fuzzy LBP, local grey level appearance, LDN, HOG, HAR, and GF | -NN, linear SVM, nonlinear SVM  random forest, and Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FLDA) | Finding the best combination among the texture methods to classify ROIs into mass/normal | 
| [33] | Local ternary pattern and  local phase quantization | SVM | Classifying tumors into benign/malignant | 
| [34] | Novel sets of texture descriptors extracted from the cooccurrence matrix | SVM | Six medical datasets were used for validation, one of them for breast cancer | 
| [35] | Texture analysis techniques based on the cooccurrence matrix and region-based approaches | SVM | 15 datasets were used for validation, one of them for breast cancer | 
| [36] | HOG, dense scale invariant feature transform,  and local configuration pattern | SVM, -NN, FLDA, and decision tree | Classifying ROIs into normal/abnormal Classifying ROIs into benign/malignant
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| [37] | Curvelet moments | -NN | Classifying ROIs into normal/abnormal Classifying ROIs into benign/malignant
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