scholarly journals Automated tumor segmentation in MR brain image using fuzzy c-means clustering and seeded region methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Mustafa Zuhaer Nayef AL-Dabagh
Keyword(s):  
Region Growing ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Jaccard Coefficient ◽  
Fuzzy C Means ◽  
Seeded Region Growing ◽  
Processing Step ◽  
Fuzzy C Means Clustering ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c8cba487-7fff-2314-f38a-f2936a74e0fd"><span>Automated segmentation of a tumor is still a considerably exciting research topic in the medical imaging processing field, and it plays a considerable role in forming a right diagnosis, to aid effective medical treatment. In this work, a fully automated system for segmentation of the brain tumor in MRI images is introduced. The suggested system consists of three parts: Initially, the image is pre-processed to enhance contrast, eliminate noise, and strip the skull from the image using filtering and morphological operations. Secondly, segmentation of the image happens using two techniques, fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) and with the application of a seeded region growing algorithm (SGR). Thirdly, this method proposes a post-processing step to smooth segmentation region edges using morphological operations. The testing of the proposed system involved 233 patients, which included 287 MRI images. A comparison of the results ensued, with the manual verification of the traces performed by doctors, which ultimately proved an average Dice Coefficient of 90.13% and an average Jaccard Coefficient of 82.60% also, by comparison with traditional segmentation techniques such as FCM method. The segmentation results and quantitative data analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the suggested system.</span></span>

scholarly journals Semi-automatic Segmentation of Liver Tumors from CT Scans Using Bayesian Rule-based 3D Region Growing

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingyi Qi ◽  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Wee Keng Leow ◽  
Qi Tian ◽  
Jiayin Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Tumors ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Region Growing ◽  
Ct Scans ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Model Matching ◽  
Bayesian Decision ◽  
Seeded Region Growing

Automatic segmentation of liver tumorous regions often fails due to high noise and large variance of tumors. In this work, a semi-automatic algorithm is proposed to segment liver tumors from computed tomography (CT) images. To cope with the variance of tumors, their intensity probability density functions (PDF) are modeled as a bag of Gaussians unlike the previous works where the tumor is modeled as a single Gaussian, and employ a three-dimensional seeded region growing (SRG) method. The bag of Gaussians are initialized at manually selected seeds and updated during growing process iteratively. There are two criteria to be fulfilled for growing: one is the Bayesian decision rule, and the other is a model matching measure. Once the growing is terminated, morphological operations are performed to refine the result. This method, showing promising performance, has been evaluated using ten CT scans of livers with twenty tumors provided by the organizer of the 3D Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2008.

The Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Fuzzy C-Means Technique

2018 ◽  
pp. 2402-2419
Author(s):  
Jyotsna Rani ◽  
Ram Kumar ◽  
Fazal A. Talukdar ◽  
Nilanjan Dey
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Fuzzy C Means ◽  
Mri Brain ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Fuzzy C Means Clustering ◽  
Comparative Results ◽  
The Brain

Image segmentation is a technique which divides an image into its constituent regions or objects. Segmentation continues till we reach our area of interest or the specified object of target. This field offers vast future scope and challenges for the researchers. This proposal uses the fuzzy c mean technique to segment the different MRI brain tumor images. This proposal also shows the comparative results of Thresholding, K-means clustering and Fuzzy c- means clustering. Dice coefficient and Jaccards measure is used for accuracy of the segmentation in this proposal. Experimental results demonstrate the performance of the designed method.

Parallel Segmentation of Multi-Channel Images Using Multi-Dimentional Mathematical Morphology

2006 ◽  
pp. 270-291
Author(s):  
Antonio Plaza ◽  
Javier Plaza ◽  
David Valencia ◽  
Pablo Martiez
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Morphology ◽  
Parallel Implementation ◽  
Region Growing ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Remotely Sensed ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Imaging Spectrometer ◽  
Seeded Region Growing ◽  
Multi Channel Imaging

Multi-channel images are characteristic of certain applications, such as medical imaging or remotely sensed data analysis. Mathematical morphology-based segmentation of multi-channel imagery has not been fully accomplished yet, mainly due to the lack of vector-based strategies to extend classic morphological operations to multidimensional imagery. For instance, the most important morphological approach for image segmentation is the watershed transformation, a hybrid of seeded region growing and edge detection. In this chapter, we describe a vector-preserving framework to extend morphological operations to multi-channel images, and further propose a fully automatic multi-channel watershed segmentation algorithm that naturally combines spatial and spectral/temporal information. Due to the large data volumes often associated with multi-channel imaging, this chapter also develops a parallel implementation strategy to speed up performance. The proposed parallel algorithm is evaluated using magnetic resonance images and remotely sensed hyperspectral scenes collected by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Airborne Visible Infra-Red Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS).

A Survey on Segmentation Techniques for Image Processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Wala’a Jasim ◽  
Rana Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Region Growing ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Pixel Intensity ◽  
Iterative Thresholding ◽  
Hybrid Techniques ◽  
Seeded Region Growing ◽  
Fuzzy C Means Clustering

The segmentation methods for image processing are studied in the presented work. Image segmentation can be defined as a vital step in digital image processing. Also, it is used in various applications including object co-segmentation, recognition tasks, medical imaging, content based image retrieval, object detection, machine vision and video surveillance. A lot of approaches were created for image segmentation. In addition, the main goal of segmentation is to facilitate and alter the image representation into something which is more important and simply to be analyzed. The approaches of image segmentation are splitting the images into a few parts on the basis of image’s features including texture, color, pixel intensity value and so on. With regard to the presented study, many approaches of image segmentation are reviewed and discussed. The techniques of segmentation might be categorized into six classes: First, thresholding segmentation techniques such as global thresholding (iterative thresholding, minimum error thresholding, otsu's, optimal thresholding, histogram concave analysis and entropy based thresholding), local thresholding (Sauvola’s approach, T.R Singh’s approach, Niblack’s approaches, Bernsen’s approach Bruckstein’s and Yanowitz method and Local Adaptive Automatic Binarization) and dynamic thresholding. Second, edge-based segmentation techniques such as gray-histogram technique, gradient based approach (laplacian of gaussian, differential coefficient approach, canny approach, prewitt approach, Roberts approach and sobel approach). Thirdly, region based segmentation approaches including Region growing techniques (seeded region growing (SRG), statistical region growing, unseeded region growing (UsRG)), also merging and region splitting approaches. Fourthly, clustering approaches, including soft clustering (fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM)) and hard clustering (K-means clustering). Fifth, deep neural network techniques such as convolution neural network, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), encoder-decoder and Auto encoder models and support vector machine. Finally, hybrid techniques such as evolutionary approaches, fuzzy logic and swarm intelligent (PSO and ABC techniques) and discusses the pros and cons of each method.

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