Automatic Detection and Classification of Liver Lesions from CT-scan Images

Abstract

This paper discusses about a method adopted to develop a computer-aided diagnostic system to achieve automatic detection and classification of liver lesions. The procedure followed consists of first segmenting the CT scan image so as to accurately extract out the lesion region alone from the rest of the abdominal details. This Region Of Interest(ROI) is now used up for extracting out first order and second order statistical feature values, which aids in the correct classification of lesions. The lesions can be classified into five types: normal liver, cysts, abscesses, benign growth (hemangioma, focal nodular hyperplasia, hepatocellular adenoma etc) and malignant growth (Hepatocellular Carcinoma, metastases etc), and this paper discusses a robust method for correctly identifying and classifying these lesions of the liver.