computer aided diagnostic system for ultrasound liver images a systematic review:(计算机辅助诊断系统对肝脏超声图像系统回顾)
Optik 140 (2017) 1114–1126
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Original research article
Computer aided diagnostic system for ultrasound liver
images: A systematic review
Mohamed Yaseen Jabarulla, Heung-No Lee ∗
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Scinece and Technology, South Korea
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history: In this article an in-depth overview is presented on Computer aided diagnostic (CAD) sys-
Received 31 December 2016 tem’s usage for liver cancer. Besides, in a broader sense highlighting the technical aspects
Accepted 4 May 2017 developed for medical ultrasound images is also discussed. CAD system is a process that
provides adequate information that helps to analyze the Ultrasound images and helps to
Keywords: accurately detecting different types of liver cancer. However, the system performance is still
Ultrasound image not significantly improved. In this paper, firstly, we categorize the CAD system according to
Liver cancer diagnosis the four primary stages including data preprocessing, lesion segmentation, feature extrac-
Computer aided diagnositic system
tion, selection, and Classifier. In each stage, we review specific methods that are commonly
Segmentation
used in most of the algorithms propose