Artificial Intelligence in Medical Sciences and Psychology: With Application of Machine Language, Computer Vision, and NLP Techniques

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T. C. NokeriArtificial Intelligence in Medical Sciences and Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8217-5_4

4. Cancer Segmentation with Neural Networks

Tshepo Chris Nokeri¹  

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Pretoria, South Africa

 

This chapter explains the practical application of computer vision and convolutional neural networks for breast and skin cancer realization and segmentation. In it, you’ll explore an approach to filtering medical scans by applying canny, luplican, and sobel filters. You’ll also ascertain the extent to which the networks accurately differentiate scans of patients with and without cancer.

Exploring Cancer

Cancer is a disease that marks an irregular growth of ...