UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR

FACULTY OF INFORMATICS
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH METHODS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON
IDENTIFYING BEST IMAGE TYPE FOR LUNG CANCER DETECTION USING
IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE

BY
ABERE FENTA

SUBMITED TO:
Dr Melkamu B.
Gondar, Ethiopia
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1
1.1. Background of the Study......................................................................................................... 1
1.2. Statement of the problem ........................................................................................................ 1
1.3. Objective ................................................................................................................................. 1
1.3.1. General objective........................................................................................................... 1
1.3.2. Specific objectives .......................................................................................................... 1
1.4. Research questions .................................................................................................................. 2
1.5. Significance of the study ......................................................................................................... 2
1.6. Scope of the study ................................................................................................................... 2
2. Literature review ............................................................................................................................. 2
2.1. Lung cancer in Ethiopia .......................................................................................................... 2
2.2. Image processing technique for lung cancer detection ........................................................... 3
3. Data, method and materials ............................................................................................................. 3
3.1. Data sources and acquisition ................................................................................................... 3
Primary data........................................................................................................................................ 3
3.1.1. Secondary data ................................................................................................................ 3
3.2. Methodology ........................................................................................................................... 3
3.3. Materials used ......................................................................................................................... 6
4. Limitation of the study .................................................................................................................... 6
5. Work Plan ....................................................................................................................................... 6
6. Budget Allocation ........................................................................................................................... 6
Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................... 7

LIST OF TABLE
Table 1: secondary data of the study area .................................................................................. 3
Table 2:Time frame for implementation of the research ........................................................... 6
Table 3: Budget allocation for necessary data ........................................................................... 7
LIST OF FIGURE
Figure 1: Lung cancer image processing stages[10] ............................................................................... 5

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

MRI-------------- Magnetic Resonance Imaging

CT---------------computed tomography

X-ray --------------- Chest Radiograph

MATLAB--------------matrix laboratory

LABVIEW--------------laboratory view

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 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Cancer is now the biggest cause of death in the world, with the smallest survival rate after the
diagnosis (Mr.Vijay A.Gajdhane 1, Prof. Deshpande L.M. 2, 2014). Lung cancer is one of the
most common cancers in current days. The mortality rate due to lung cancer is very high.
Survival from the disease is difficult if it is not detected at the early stage. However early
lung cancer detection using image processing technique can increase the chance of people to
survive (Vipin Kumar Jain,Dr. Ritu Vijay).

The image processing technique used for image improvement in earlier detection
and treatment stages of lung cancer (Neha Panpaliya,Neha Tadas,Surabhi Bobade,Rewti
Aglawe,Akshay Gudadhe, 2015).

1.2. Statement of the problem

Many researches are done on the detection of lung cancer by using different techniques.
However, the previous research works mostly focused on one or two types of medical
images. So that almost there is no clear information that answers the question which type of
medical images gives better result for detecting lung cancer? By considering this as a
problem this research is going to be conducted on the four different types of medical images
and after experiment comparison will be conducted and it will identify the best type of
images for lung cancer detection.

1.3. Objective
1.3.1. General objective
The general objective of the study is to identify the best image type for lung cancer detection
by evaluating their result in the image and to detect lung cancer using image processing
technique from different types of medical images (X-ray, CT scan, MRI and PET images).

1.3.2. Specific objectives

The following are the specific objectives of the research.

 To build an efficient and accurate computerized method for lung cancer

detection.

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  To reduce the time and cost required for various excessive Medical Tests.
 To increase the accuracy and performance of Lung Cancer Detection System.
 To use less number of attributes for detection of lung Cancer.
 To provide early stage detection of lung cancer.

1.4. Research questions

 Which medical image type gives better result to detect lung cancer?
 How to provide lung cancer detection at early stage?
 What types of methods are used to detect lung cancer?
1.5. Significance of the study

 Helps different medical centers to use the best type of medical image that gives better
result for lung cancer detection by comparing different type of medical images
 It will be used as input for the next researchers.

1.6. Scope of the study

The research idea mainly will focuses on identifying the best image type for lung cancer
detection by evaluating their result in the image processing technique.

2. Literature review
2.1. Lung cancer in Ethiopia
As (Neha Panpaliya,Neha Tadas,Surabhi Bobade,Rewti Aglawe,Akshay Gudadhe,

2015)Lung cancer is one of the most dangerous cancer types in the Ethiopia as well as in the

world. These diseases can spread worldwide by uncontrolled cell growth in the tissues of the

lung. According to (Mr.Vijay A.Gajdhane 1, Prof. Deshpande L.M. 2, 2014)the researchers

have done a study to detect lung cancer on CT scan images by using various image processing

techniques taking CT scanned lung images of cancer patients from hospitals. However since their

image dataset is only CT scan images it doesn’t show the accurate variation that exists among the

different types of medical images for lung cancer detection using image processing. As (Vipin

Kumar Jain,Dr. Ritu Vijay)the researcher tries to detect lung caner from a MRI images by

comparing the intensity value of both the cancer infected flash image and normal flash image and they

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found that in the cancer infected flash there is much variation in intensity values at many places while

the normal flash image don’t show any big variation in intensity values. However still this paper

doesn’t tell us the best image type for detection of cancer using image processing.

2.2. Image processing technique for lung cancer detection

A technique which takes an image as input and returns an image as output after
processing it and used for image enhancement, feature detection, noise removal .

3. Data, method and materials

3.1. Data sources and acquisition
Primary data
Primary data’s are the data which is collected for the purpose of this study. This includes
field data collection, oral interviews with an individual which is necessary for the study.

3.1.1. Secondary data

Gathering secondary data related to Identifying Best Image Type for Lung Cancer Detection
Using Image Processing Technique. The following secondary data’s will be used to identify
best image Type for Lung Cancer Detection (diagnostic center).

NO. IMAGE DATA SOURCE DESCRIPTION

1 CT- images diagnostic center normal and abnormal images

2 X-Ray images diagnostic center normal and abnormal images

3 MRI images diagnostic center normal and abnormal images

4 PET images diagnostic center normal and abnormal images

Table 1: secondary data of the study area

3.2. Methodology
In this research proposal, to get more accurate results the researcher divided this work into
the following six stages:

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 1. Image capturing
Image capturing begins by taking a collection of normal and abnormal images (CT-
images, X-Ray images, MRI images and PET images) from different diagnostic
centers (Neha Panpaliya,Neha Tadas,Surabhi Bobade,Rewti Aglawe,Akshay
Gudadhe, 2015).

2. Image pre processing

Image Preprocessing is a process used to reduce noise and prepare the images for further
steps. (Neelima Singh,A. Asuntha, 2016). In this stage, image smoothing is the first step
used for removing noise and high frequency parts from the image (Sayali Satish
Kanitkar,N. D. Thombare,S. S. Lokhande, 2015).Imageenhancement is the next part here
aims to improve the clarity of information (Neha Panpaliya,Neha Tadas,Surabhi
Bobade,Rewti Aglawe,Akshay Gudadhe, 2015)and interpretability of information in the
image to the human viewers (Ajil M V ,Sreeram S, 2015).

3. Image segmentation
This stage is the process of separating the lung parts from medical image
(Varalakshmi.K, 2013) and helps to partition the image into meaningful region and to
identify the relevant information from different images (Sayali Satish Kanitkar,N. D.
Thombare,S. S. Lokhande, 2015).
4. IMAGE EXTRACTION

This stage is an important stage that uses algorithms and different techniques to detect
and isolate various portions or shapes/features of a given image (Mr.Vijay A.Gajdhane 1,
Prof. Deshpande L.M. 2, 2014) and obtains the general features from segmented image
which gives indicators of normality or abnormality of images. (AL-TARAWNEH, 2012).

5. CLASSIFICATION

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This stage tries to classify lung cancer into different stages using learning models with
associated learning algorithms to analyze data and recognize patterns

6. Re-classification

This stage is the process of re-classifying old default software results to new standard lung
cancer result.

Image capture

Image Pre -
smoothing enhancement
processing

segmentation

Feature extraction

Image
classification of
cancer stages

Re-classification of
cancer stages

Figure 1:Lung cancer image processing stages (Sayali Satish Kanitkar, N. D. Thombare, S. S.
Lokhande, 2015 )

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 3.3. MATERIALS USED

MATLAB and VIEWLAB software’s together are going to be used for lung cancer detection

from different medical images.

4. Limitation of the study

There are limitations to achieve the above objectives these are lack of budget, shortage of
time, internet service.
5. Work Plan

Activities December January February March April

1 Data collection

2 Literature Review

3 Image
processing/Experimentation

4 Result and Discussion

5 Finalize and Reporting

6 Documentation

Table 2: Time frame for implementation of the research

6. Budget Allocation

The research will require an estimated budget of 2500 Ethiopian Birr.

Description Data item Expanse

Transport service  Public transport 100

Hard disk  storage device 1800

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Communication  Phone, email, fax 200

Reporting  Printing, photo copy, etc. 300

Others ---------- 300

Table 3: Budget allocation for necessary data

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