Liver Cancer Detection Using Otsu’s Method for Image Processing

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is leading cause of deaths globally. Among all types of cancer, liver cancer has the lowest survivability, with approximately one million deaths each year. It is essential for medical practitioners to decide a suitable treatment for such cancer patients, which requires identification of cancer cells correctly as earliest as possible. For this purpose, image processing technique is used in this paper. Here the input is an MRI image and the output is also an image. The Otsu’s method will be used to enhance the MRI image and watershed method will be used to segment the cancer cell from the image. Evaluation and examination of these techniques is done for finest results and highest accuracy. These techniques are also used in medical applications in detection of various diseases.