Survey on Identification Tools for Hepatocellular Carcinoma- A Review

Abstract

Aims: The main objective of this paper is to review the technologies used for the detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Study Design: Convective cooling protects the cancer cells from thermal destruction and decreases the necrosed volume. A major objective of the method development is to achieve a virtually complete necrosis of tumors close to major blood vessels and to avoid blood vessel damage and, hence, the  needed treatment planning. Place and Duration of Study: We found from this three-dimensional three-field coupling study that in large blood vessels, both convective cooling and acoustic streaming may change the temperature considerably near the blood vessel. Acoustic streaming velocity magnitude can be several times larger than the blood vessel velocity. Methodology: Different methods and techniques were proposed so far in the automatic detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. However the performance of the technologies till now not completely matched to the performance of human expert. Results: This review paper have analyzed the recent technologies in Liver Cancer Identification (24%), Liver Tumor Risks (16%), MR Imaging (22%), Liver Tumor Prevention (16%) and Liver Tumor Therapy (18%).  The results presented in the current work can be further used to construct a surgical planning platform. Conclusions: Also we give some directions about the technologies and this can be useful for the researches to develop a new technology for the detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.