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A Comparative Analysis of Segmentation Techniques for Lung Cancer Detection

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Cancer is the major cause of death worldwide. Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer and is the main reason of cancer death. Lung cancer is defined as a detrimental lung tumor which is identified by unregulated cell development in the lung tissues. If this disease is not treated at early stages then this unregulated growth can spread into the neighboring tissues and other parts of the body. Detection of lung cancer at its early stage is very difficult because there are very less or may be no symptoms in the early stages of this disease and most of the cancer cases are usually diagnosed in its subsequent stages. Treatment of lung cancer in the early stages can improve the survival rate. And for this purpose it is an essential task to detect the lung cancer at its early stages. In this paper we have presented a comparative analysis of various image segmentation techniques for the detection of lung cancer. These methods include Thresholding methods, Marker Controlled watershed Segmentation, Edge detection and PDE based segmentation techniques.

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Priyanshu Tripathi is B. Tech., M. Tech. from N.I.T. Jalandhar (Punjab), India. He is a young Technocrat and researcher. Currently, He is working as an Assistant Professor in Hindu college of Engineering Sonepat, Haryana, India. His area of Interest is Robotics and image processing. He has published various research papers in National, International and IEEE international conferences and Springer International Journals.

Shweta Tyagi is B. Tech. from MDU Rohtak (Haryana), Pursuing M. Tech. from DCRUST (Haryana), India. She is a young Technocrat and researcher. Her area of Interest is Robotics and Image processing. She has published various research papers in National, International conferences.

Madhwendra Nath is B. Tech., M. Tech. from N.I.T. Jalandhar (Punjab), India. Currently, He is working as an Assistant Professor in Hindu college of Engineering Sonepat, Haryana, India. His area of Interest is Signal Processing and image Biometric Security. He has published various research papers in National, International and IEEE international conferences.

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Tripathi, P., Tyagi, S. & Nath, M. A Comparative Analysis of Segmentation Techniques for Lung Cancer Detection. Pattern Recognit. Image Anal. 29, 167–173 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S105466181901019X

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