“…Vector Quantization (VQ) was initially developed and implemented for image compression, with the help of many codebook generation and quantization algorithms [25,26,27,28], but now a days it has been extensively use in other applications, such as image segmentation [29], speech recognition [30], pattern recognition and face detection [31,32], tumor demarcation in MRI and Mammogram images [33,34], content based image retrieval [35,36] etc. In this paper, this method has been used as clustering aid in demarcation of area of interest (cysts and tumor) in breast ultrasound images.…”