The Location of Cancer Area Based on Region Growing Algorithm in Medical Image

Abstract:

Image segmentation in medical image processing has been extensively used which has also been applied in different fields of medicine to assist doctors to make the correct judgment and grasp the patient's condition. However, nowadays there are no image threshold segmentation techniques that can be applied to all of the medical images; so it has became a challenging problem. In this paper, it applies a method of identifying edge of the tissues and organs to recognize its contour, and then selects a number of seed points on the contour range to locate the cancer area by region growing. And finally, the result has demonstrated that this method can mostly locate the cancer area accurately.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 760-762)
• Pages: 1552-1555
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.760-762.1552
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Jing Jing Wang, Xiao Wei Song, Mei Fang
• Keywords: Location, Medical Image, Region Growing, Seed Point

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