Diagnosis of Lung Nodules from 2D Computer Tomography Scans (original) (raw)

Biomedical Engineering: Applications, Basis and Communications, 2020

Abstract

Cancers typically are both highly dangerous and common. Among these, lung cancer has one of the lowest survival rates compared to other cancers. CT scans can reveal dense masses of different shapes and sizes; in the lungs, these are called lung nodules. This study applied a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to detect candidate nodules — and diagnose it either solitary or juxtapleural — with equivalent diameters, ranging from 7.78[Formula: see text]mm to 22.48[Formula: see text]mm in a 2D CT slice. Pre-processing and segmentation is a very important step to segment and enhance the CT image. A segmentation and enhancement algorithm is achieved using bilateral filtering, Thresholding the gray-level transformation function, Bounding box and maximum intensity projection. Border artifacts are removed by clearing the lung border, erosion, dilation and superimposing. Feature extraction is done by extracting 20 gray-level co-occurrence matrix features from four directions: [Formula: see ...

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