Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors for the women, the main way to decrease mortality caused by breast cancer is the inchoate diagnosis and treatment. It has been shown to be very effective in the reduction of breast cancer mortality rates. The appearance of microcalcifications in mammograms is one of the early signs of breast cancer. So, early detection of microcalcification clusters in mammograms can be helpful for cancer diagnosis and better treatment of breast cancer. Therefore, we presents a method (golden search foveal algorithm) to detect breast calcifications, to assist physicians for the diagnosis of breast calcifications. The results also proved that the proposed method of this paper is effective and desirable.