Detection of lung cancer from CT image using image processing and neural network

Abstract

Detection of lung cancer is the most interesting research area of researcher's in early stages. The proposed system is designed to detect lung cancer in premature stage in two stages. The proposed system consists of many steps such as image acquisition, preprocessing, binarization, thresholding, segmentation, feature extraction, and neural network detection. At first Input lung CT images to the system and then passed through the image preprocessing stage by using some image processing techniques. In first stage, Binarization technique is used to convert binary image and then compare it with threshold value to detect lung cancer. In second stage, segmentation is performed to segment the lung CT image and a strong feature extraction method has been introduced to extract the some important feature of segmented images. Extracted features are used to train the neural network and finally the system is tested any cancerous and noncancerous images. The performance of proposed system shows satisfactory results and proposed method gives 96.67% accuracy.