Image Based Fractal Analysis for Detection of Cancer Cells
Jason Qin, Lindsay L. Puckett, Xin Qian · 2020
Early detection of cancer is crucial to treatment. In this paper, we investigated an image based fractal analysis method for detecting cancer cells. Cancer cells typically display abnormalities including unregulated cell growth. Fractal analysis can be used to analyze irregularly shaped figures and measure morphological complexity. Experiments with images of human breast cancer cells were investigated. Changes in the fractal dimension between cancer cells and healthy cells were analyzed and compared. Our preliminary results show that the image based fractal analysis technique is able to detect breast cancer cells. It has great potential for yielding insight into the morphological characterization of tumor growth and may serve as an indicator for cancer detection and cancer treatment efficiency.