Large cells cancer volumetry in chest computed tomography pulmonary images

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Fecha
2019
2019
Autor
Huérfano, Y
Vera, M
Gelvez-Almeida, E
Vera, M I
Valbuena, O
Salazar-Torres, J
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Resumen
Lung cancer is the leading oncological cause of death in the world. As for carcinomas, they represent between 90% and 95% of lung cancers; among them, non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type and the large cell carcinoma, the pathology on which this research focuses, is usually detected with the computed tomography images of the thorax. These images have three big problems: noise, artifacts and low contrast. The volume of the large cell carcinoma is obtained from the segmentations of the cancerous tumor generated, in a semi-automatic way, by a computational strategy based on a combination of algorithms that, in order to address the aforementioned problems, considers median and gradient magnitude filters and an unsupervised grouping technique for generating the large cell carcinoma morphology. The results of high correlation between the semi-automatic segmentations and the manual ones, drawn up by a pulmonologist, allow us to infer the excellent performance of the proposed technique. This technique can be useful in the detection and monitoring of large cell carcinoma and if it is considering this kind of computational strategy, medical specialists can establish the clinic or surgical actions oriented to address this pulmonary pathology.
Enlace para referencia:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12442/5073
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12442/5073
Enlace al recurso externo:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1414/1/012018
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1414/1/012018