• DocumentCode
    2101294
  • Title

    Early detection of lung cancer based on sputum color image analysis

  • Author

    Taher, Fatma ; Al-Ahmad, Hussain ; Werghi, Naoufel

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Khalifa Univ., Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-11 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    62
  • Lastpage
    63
  • Abstract
    Lung cancer has been the largest cause of cancer deaths worldwide with an overall 5-year survival rate of only 15%. Its symptoms can be detected only in advanced stages where the patient´s chance of survival is very low, thus causing the mortality rate to be the highest among all other types of cancer.
  • Keywords
    cancer; image colour analysis; lung; medical image processing; advanced stages; early detection; lung cancer; mortality rate; overall 5-year survival rate; patient survival; sputum color image analysis; Accuracy; Bayes methods; Cancer; Histograms; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Lungs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Abu Dhabi
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815345
  • Filename
    6815345