Objective Identification of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules by using the computer-aided detection and diagnosis system is one hot spot. Methods An identification method for benign and malignant pulmonary nodule based on the 3D information of lung CT image was proposed. First we segmented the pulmonary nodules from CT images with the methods of segmentation, regional growth, morphology, then extracted and optimized the 3D information of each pulmonary nodule. Finally we utilized the SVM classification algorithm to divide those pulmonary nodules into two categories based on the effective features. Results The classification results were assessed by sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and likelihood ratio. From the experiment we got the results as follows, the sensitivity was 0.7776, the accuracy was 0.7378, the positive likelihood ratio was 2.2410 and the negative likelihood ratio was 0.3682. Conclusions All the results showed that the new method achieved satisfactory identification effect and was significant for the computer-aided diagnosis of lung cancer.
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