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Lung Detection and Segmentation Using Marker Watershed and Laplacian Filtering

Received: 4 August 2015     Accepted: 20 October 2015     Published: 20 October 2015
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Abstract

This paper proposes a new speed approach for the segmentation of the lung images in order to detect and extract the tumor region. The approach consists of two main stages, which are the preprocessing stage, marker watershed stage and the tumor detection stage. The preprocessing consists of laplacian filtering to enhance edges and make the next stages more efficient. The marker watershed step applies the Sobel gradient function on the foreground and background markers to get the possible tumor region. The post processing stage consists of tumor detection and segmentation in which the area of the tumor is calculated. The results are done on a medical lung database obtained from Tishreen hospital (in Lattakia, Syria) which consists of 59 images from 10 persons. The result shows robustness of the system in detecting and segmenting tumor region in different depths. The designed GUI supplies user with tumor region and area, and time of each stage.

Published in International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Clinical Science (Volume 1, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijbecs.20150102.12
Page(s) 29-42
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Keywords

Image Processing, Medical Image Processing, Lung Images, Segmentation, Tumor Detection

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  • Computer Scinces, Teshreen University, Lattakia, Syria

  • Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria

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