Lung tumor detection automatically examines a patient’s chest CT scan and identifies the location of suspected malignant tumors, if any exist. CT scans are three-dimensional, single-channel arrays, making the task more demanding than ordinary image classification. The practical motivation is early detection: specialists must search large amounts of data, most of which contains no cancer, while maintaining painstaking attention to detail. section 11.1
From scan to suspected tumor
A three-dimensional CT scan of a human torso enters the system; the output identifies the location of a suspected malignant lung tumor or indicates that none is present. section 11.1
