An Effective Approach for Lung Segmentation in CT Images
S. Radharani, Sree Narayana · 2013
This paper describes a method for extracting lung regions by X-ray Computer Tomography. Mostly Image Processing Techniques are used in medical areas to diagnosis the diseases in the human anatomy. An effective Extraction method is needed to separate the lung region from the other parts of human body. This method mainly helps for detecting the cancer cells and other diseases in the Lung region. The following steps to be followed to extract lung portion 1) identifying and capturing the chest body portion with the background portion 2) removing background portion 3) leaving only lungs portion.