Gastro-intestinal image processing and neural network based classification of abnormalities

• Main Author: Yap, Chong Jin.
• Other Authors: Krishnan, Shankar Muthu
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Medical electronics; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/3861
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This project provides computer-based assistance to doctors in the detection of colo-rectal cancer. Three key areas were investigated and new algorithm was developed in the image-processing arena. New parametric features were extracted, and used by the artificial neural networks for status classifica...