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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Abu Dhabi
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815345
