A Study on Lung Cancer Detection by Image Processing

Author

Wang, Weixing ; Wu, Shuguang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Chongqing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

374

Abstract

The paper presents that (1) we apply image processing technique into lung tissue information recognition, the key and hardest task is auto-detecting the tiny nodules, which may present the information of early lung cancer; and (2) the newly developed ridge detection algorithm is to diagnose indeterminate nodules correctly, allowing curative resection of early-stage malignant nodules and avoiding the morbidity and mortality of surgery for benign nodules. The algorithm has been compared to some traditional image segmentation algorithms. All the results are satisfactory for diagnosis

Keywords

biological tissues; cancer; lung; medical image processing; autodetection; benign nodules; image processing; indeterminate nodule diagnosis; lung cancer detection; lung tissue information recognition; malignant nodules; ridge detection algorithm; Cancer detection; Computed tomography; Computer science; Image processing; Image segmentation; Lesions; Lungs; Neoplasms; Paper technology; Spirals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems Proceedings, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9584-0

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9585-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2006.284656

Filename

4063900