Brain Tumor Segmentation in 3D-MRI Based on Artificial Bee Colony and Level Set

Author(s):  
Yasmine Mahmoud Ibrahim ◽  
Saad Darwish ◽  
Walaa Sheta
Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan A. Khalil ◽  
Saad Darwish ◽  
Yasmine M. Ibrahim ◽  
Osama F. Hassan

Accurate brain tumor segmentation from 3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (3D-MRI) is an important method for obtaining information required for diagnosis and disease therapy planning. Variation in the brain tumor’s size, structure, and form is one of the main challenges in tumor segmentation, and selecting the initial contour plays a significant role in reducing the segmentation error and the number of iterations in the level set method. To overcome this issue, this paper suggests a two-step dragonfly algorithm (DA) clustering technique to extract initial contour points accurately. The brain is extracted from the head in the preprocessing step, then tumor edges are extracted using the two-step DA, and these extracted edges are used as an initial contour for the MRI sequence. Lastly, the tumor region is extracted from all volume slices using a level set segmentation method. The results of applying the proposed technique on 3D-MRI images from the multimodal brain tumor segmentation challenge (BRATS) 2017 dataset show that the proposed method for brain tumor segmentation is comparable to the state-of-the-art methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 352 ◽  
pp. 109091
Author(s):  
Asieh Khosravanian ◽  
Mohammad Rahmanimanesh ◽  
Parviz Keshavarzi ◽  
Saeed Mozaffari

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelmajid Bousselham ◽  
Omar Bouattane ◽  
Mohamed Youssfi ◽  
Abdelhadi Raihani

Brain tumor segmentation is the process of separating the tumor from normal brain tissues; in clinical routine, it provides useful information for diagnosis and treatment planning. However, it is still a challenging task due to the irregular form and confusing boundaries of tumors. Tumor cells thermally represent a heat source; their temperature is high compared to normal brain cells. The main aim of the present paper is to demonstrate that thermal information of brain tumors can be used to reduce false positive and false negative results of segmentation performed in MRI images. Pennes bioheat equation was solved numerically using the finite difference method to simulate the temperature distribution in the brain; Gaussian noises of ±2% were added to the simulated temperatures. Canny edge detector was used to detect tumor contours from the calculated thermal map, as the calculated temperature showed a large gradient in tumor contours. The proposed method is compared to Chan–Vese based level set segmentation method applied to T1 contrast-enhanced and Flair MRI images of brains containing tumors with ground truth. The method is tested in four different phantom patients by considering different tumor volumes and locations and 50 synthetic patients taken from BRATS 2012 and BRATS 2013. The obtained results in all patients showed significant improvement using the proposed method compared to segmentation by level set method with an average of 0.8% of the tumor area and 2.48% of healthy tissue was differentiated using thermal images only. We conclude that tumor contours delineation based on tumor temperature changes can be exploited to reinforce and enhance segmentation algorithms in MRI diagnostic.


2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Truong Van Pham ◽  
Thao Thi Tran

This paper presents an approach for brain tumor segmentation based on deep neural networks. The paper proposes to utilize U-Net as an architecture of the approach to capture the fine and soars information from input images. Especially, to train the network, instead of using commonly used cross-entropy loss, dice loss or both, in this study, we propose to employ a new loss function including Level set loss and Dice loss function. The level set loss is inspired from Mumford-Shah functional for unsupervised task. Meanwhile, the Dice loss function measures the similarity between the predicted mask and desired mask. The proposed approach is then applied to segment brain tumor from MRI images as well as evaluated and compared with other approaches on a dataset of nearly 4000 brain MRI scans. Experiment results show that the proposed approach achieves high performance in terms of Dice coefficient and Intersection over Union (IoU) scores.


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