Automated Pulmonary Lung Nodule Detection Using an Optimal Manifold Statistical Based Feature Descriptor and SVM Classifier

Abstract

Introduction Lung Cancer is one of the prime causes of death related to cancers at global level. Majority of the patients suffering from lung cancer are at advanced stage (stage IV – 40%, stage III – 30%), and only 16% survival rate for the present five years is found.1 Identification at an