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Computer Aided Detection (Cad) System For Automatic Pulmonary Noduledetection in Lungs in CT Scans
Computer Aided Detection (Cad) System For Automatic Pulmonary Noduledetection in Lungs in CT Scans
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--------------------------------------------------------Abstract--------------------------------------------------------
The main motto of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the Automated CAD for Lung Nodule Detection
using CT Scans. The CAD system is applied to CT scans collected in a Screening program for lung cancer
detection. Each scan consists of a sequence of about 400 slices stored in DICOM (Digital Imaging and
Communications in Medicine) format. All malignant nodules were detected and a very low false positive
detection rate was achieved. The performance is evaluated as a fully automated computerized method for the
detection of lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) scan in the identification of lung cancers that may be
missed during visual interpretation.
I. Introduction
Otherwise, the scan is interrupted along Fig. 5 The image after the opening and closing
the direction under examination and the successive operators.
row/column is analyzed in a similar way. The Pulmonary lobes. Then we reconstruct the
image produced by this operator (shown in Fig. 3) pulmonary lobes borders so as to reinsert the
is converted to a binary image by means of a nodules adjacent to the pleura (juxta-pleura
thresholding technique that uses either a static. nodules) previously suppressed by the thresholding
depending on the lung zone the slice belongs to operator.
image. The detection method proposed in this
paper is based on the lung anatomical structure and
spatial characteristics. The image consists slices of
lungs.