A Novel Approach of Cancerous Cells Detection from Lungs CT Scan Images

A novel approach for detection of cancerous cells from Lungs CT scan images is proposed in this paper. Locating lung cancer at an early stage is a challenging task since there are few or no symptoms in this stage of the disease and majority of the cases are diagnosed in the later stages of the disease. Treating cancer in the early stages can provide more treatment options, less invasive surgery, and increases the survival rate. The majority of lung cancers originate as a small growth or nodule in the lung. Screening CT scans are extremely sensitive in detecting nodules as small as 2 or 3mm within the lungs. CT screening is efficient in locating majority of lung cancers. Lung CT Scan helps in detecting lung cancers at an early stage. This present work proposes a method to detect the cancerous cells effectively from the CT scan images by reducing the detection error made by the physicians’ naked eye for medical study based on Sobel edge detection and label matrix. Keywords— CT scan, Lungs Cancer, Sobel Edge Detection, Label Matrix