Hue-Texture-Embedded Region-Based Model for Magnifying Endoscopy with Narrow-Band Imaging Image Segmentation Based on Visual Features

Gastric cancer (GC) was the fourth most common cancer and third-leading cause of cancer death in the world, with 951,000 new cases diagnosed and 723,000 case of death in 2012, and more than 70% cases occurred and died in developing countries (mainly in Eastern Asia) [1,2]. In China, reports estimated that about 420,489 people with gastric cancer have been confirmed in 2011 [3] and 679,100 people in 2015 [4]. In addition, 297,496 Chinese have died from gastric cancer in 2011 [3] and 498,000 Chinese in 2015 [4], in other words, the survival rates were all lower than 40 %.

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - April 13, 2017 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Xiaoqi Liu, Chengliang Wang, Jianying Bai, Guobin Liao, Yanjun Zhao Source Type: research