A Computer-Aided Pipeline for Automatic Lung Cancer Classification on Computed Tomography Scans

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Processing steps of the proposed pipeline: (a) original DICOM image; (b) image preprocessing and enhancement; (c) lung volume extraction from CT scan; (d) detection of candidate nodules; (e) segmentation of nodules; (f) classification of nodules.

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