IMPROVED HYBRID SEGMENTATION OF BRAIN MRI TISSUE AND TUMOR USING STATISTICAL FEATURES

ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing ( Volume: 1 , Issue: 1 )

Abstract

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Medical image segmentation is the most essential and crucial process in order to facilitate the characterization and visualization of the structure of interest in medical images. Relevant application in neuroradiology is the segmentation of MRI data sets of the human brain into the structure classes gray matter, white matter and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and tumor. In this paper, brain image segmentation algorithms such as Fuzzy C means (FCM) segmentation and Kohonen means(K means) segmentation were implemented. In addition to this, new hybrid segmentation technique, namely, Fuzzy Kohonen means of image segmentation based on statistical feature clustering is proposed and implemented along with standard pixel value clustering method. The clustered segmented tissue images are compared with the Ground truth and its performance metric is also found. It is found that the feature based hybrid segmentation gives improved performance metric and improved classification accuracy rather than pixel based segmentation.

Authors

S. Allin Christe, K. Malathy, A. Kandaswamy
PSG College of Technology, India

Keywords

K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means, Fuzzy Kohonen Means Clustering, Distance of Clustering, Von Dongen Index

Published By
ICTACT
Published In
ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing
( Volume: 1 , Issue: 1 )
Date of Publication
August 2010
Pages
43 - 49

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