Localization of tumors in various organs, using edge detection algorithms

Felipe López Vélez

doi:10.1117/12.2189719

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22 September 2015 Localization of tumors in various organs, using edge detection algorithms

Felipe López Vélez

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Proceedings Volume 9599, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII; 959908 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189719
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

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The edge of an image is a set of points organized in a curved line, where in each of these points the brightness of the image changes abruptly, or has discontinuities, in order to find these edges there will be five different mathematical methods to be used and later on compared with its peers, this is with the aim of finding which of the methods is the one that can find the edges of any given image. In this paper these five methods will be used for medical purposes in order to find which one is capable of finding the edges of a scanned image more accurately than the others. The problem consists in analyzing the following two biomedicals images. One of them represents a brain tumor and the other one a liver tumor. These images will be analyzed with the help of the five methods described and the results will be compared in order to determine the best method to be used. It was decided to use different algorithms of edge detection in order to obtain the results shown below; Bessel algorithm, Morse algorithm, Hermite algorithm, Weibull algorithm and Sobel algorithm. After analyzing the appliance of each of the methods to both images it´s impossible to determine the most accurate method for tumor detection due to the fact that in each case the best method changed, i.e., for the brain tumor image it can be noticed that the Morse method was the best at finding the edges of the image but for the liver tumor image it was the Hermite method. Making further observations it is found that Hermite and Morse have for these two cases the lowest standard deviations, concluding that these two are the most accurate method to find the edges in analysis of biomedical images.

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Felipe López Vélez "Localization of tumors in various organs, using edge detection algorithms", Proc. SPIE 9599, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII, 959908 (22 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2189719

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