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What is CT Scan

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Computed tomography (CT) scan uses data from several X-rays and combine them to get the image of particular part of that object.
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Analysis of Different Image Processing Techniques for Classification and Detection of Cancer Cells
Bukhtawar Elahi (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan), Maria Kanwal (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan), and Sana Elahi (Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Pakistan)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2521-0.ch008
Abstract
This chapter gives an analysis of various methodologies for detecting cancer cells through image processing techniques. The challenges during such detections are over-segmentation and computational complexities. Therefore, the algorithms dealing with such problems are analyzed in this chapter. In these algorithms, a watershed and setting up threshold are helpful to overcome segmentation issues. A support vector machine is discussed to detect subtypes of pneumoconiosis for disjointing segments of lungs. For finding lung cancer cells, a segmentation weighted fuzzy probabilistic-based clustering has been used. Multiple variants of thresholding along with classifiers are proposed to detect lungs and liver cancer. Other than that, noise-removal, feature extraction and watershed are used to detect breast cancer. For leukemia, a bimodal thresholding over enhanced images of cytoplasm and nuclei regions has been discussed. kNN classifier, k-mean clustering, and feed-forward neural networks have also been discussed. Results from these techniques vary from 60%-100% depending on the proposed methodology.
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Characterization of Elevated Tumor Markers in Diagnosis of HCC Using Data Mining Methods
Computed tomography (CT) scan is a type of imaging study of human body. Computers and rotating X-Ray machines provides comprehensive information regarding the bold vessels, bones in various parts of body and blood vessels.
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