Lung cancer detection using image processing techniques

Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologies

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 147-158

  Al Tarawneh, Mokhled S ^a  

^a MUTAH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Cancer Detection; Enhancement Watershed; Feature extraction; Image processing; Masking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865262286     PISSN: 15831078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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