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Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 9(1), DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i1/85765, January 2016 ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645
Abstract
The detection of lung cancer through image processing is an important tool for diagnoses. Different methods were employed
to detect the cancerous cell of a lung with image pre processing such as Gabor filter, image segmentation using watershed
segmentation and feature extraction by using MATLAB. In this experiment, various Computed Tomography (CT) images
of lung were used as input image and obtained the output image in JPEG format. The resultant output of this technique
was evaluated. Based on the results, it shows that watershed segmentation technique is showed better results than other
segmentation techniques for lung cancer cell identification.
Keywords: CT Lung Cancer Image, Image Segmentation, Thresholding Operation, Watershed Method
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S. Logesh kumar, M. Swathy, S. Sathish, J. Sivaraman and M. Rajasekar
4. Conclusion
In this study it is identified that the lesion size of cancer
cell is 20mm for normal lung and greater than 20mm as
abnormal lung cancer cell. Thus the resultant output of this
technique is obtained and evaluated. Based on this study
it is more evident that watershed segmentation technique
(a) is good for evaluation of lung cancer cell region.
5. Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank the fund from the
DST-FIST, Govt of India, vide Ref.: SR/FST/College-
189/2013, Dated: 6th August 2014.
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