ARTICLE NAME:

A HOLISTIC STUDY ON CANCER AND A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO DETECT CANCER

AUTHOR NAME

Dr. Siva Jothi, Ms. R. Geetha

ISSUE:

VOL.1, NO.1

YEAR:

JUNE 2018

PAGE NO:

55-67

ABSTRACT:

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world today. Studies show that one in three people will suffer from some form of cancer in their lifetime. There are many different kinds of cancer that effect different parts of the body. Cancer is treated in various different ways. Some forms of cancer are curable, and some are not. This paper aims in presenting the overall shape of the cancer disease and how digital image processing techniques are used in detecting cancer. It also reviews the processes and techniques that are used on the medical scans. It is found that computer vision based techniques can diagnose cancer at an expert level and assist in treating them. Keywords: Benign tumor, Malignant tumor, Computer Aided Diagnosis(CAD), Contour, Morphology.

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