Computer aided diagnosis of liver tumours from CT images

Abstract

Liver cancer is one of the most common intestinal malignancies worldwide and its early detection provides a better chance of proper treatment Examination of liver tumours is performed with various medical imaging modalities such as ultrasonography computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging Computed tomography has been identified as an accurate and robust imaging modality in the diagnosis of the liver tumours Although the quality of computed tomography images has improved significantly in newlinesome cases even experienced radiologists resort to invasive procedures to confirm their diagnosis The complications and contraindications of invasive procedures are severe newlineComputer assisted liver tumour classification based on medical image analysis can be employed in the diagnosis and hence reduce the number of invasive procedures that would otherwise have been necessary The evolution in medical image processing and artificial intelligence techniques has given researchers the opportunity to investigate the potential of computer aided diagnostic systems for classifying liver tumours newline