scholarly journals K-means algorithm with level set for brain tumor segmentation

Author(s):  
Samah Abdelaziz ◽  
Songfeng Lu

<p>Brain is a complicated structure consisting of millions of millions cells so that, it’s difficult to identify any diseases without using any computerized technology. Magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is one of the main assessments of brain tumors. One of the most important steps on medical image processing is segmentation. Segmenting brain mri images, which provide accurate information for the diagnosis and therapy decisions of brain tumors. We proposed to segment brain tumor mri images into three parts (wm (white matter), gm (gray matter), and background). The first algorithm is for applying median filtering on brain mri image for removing the noise from the image for achieving accurate results. The second algorithm is for applying k-means algorithm for accuracy in time consuming and for clustering into regions and  the third algorithm indicate the detecting the boundary of the image with the use of level set. By comparison, our proposed method, its efficiency to segment perfectly more than other previous used algorithms especially on time consuming.</p>

Author(s):  
Ghazanfar Latif ◽  
Jaafar Alghazo ◽  
Fadi N. Sibai ◽  
D.N.F. Awang Iskandar ◽  
Adil H. Khan

Background: Variations of image segmentation techniques, particularly those used for Brain MRI segmentation, vary in complexity from basic standard Fuzzy C-means (FCM) to more complex and enhanced FCM techniques. Objective: In this paper, a comprehensive review is presented on all thirteen variations of FCM segmentation techniques. In the review process, the concentration is on the use of FCM segmentation techniques for brain tumors. Brain tumor segmentation is a vital step in the process of automatically diagnosing brain tumors. Unlike segmentation of other types of images, brain tumor segmentation is a very challenging task due to the variations in brain anatomy. The low contrast of brain images further complicates this process. Early diagnosis of brain tumors is indeed beneficial to patients, doctors, and medical providers. Results: FCM segmentation works on images obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, requiring minor modifications to hospital operations to early diagnose tumors as most, if not all, hospitals rely on MRI machines for brain imaging. In this paper, we critically review and summarize FCM based techniques for brain MRI segmentation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shidong Li ◽  
Jianwei Liu ◽  
Zhanjie Song

Abstract Since magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has superior soft tissue contrast, contouring (brain) tumor accurately by MRI images is essential in medical image processing. Segmenting tumor accurately is immensely challenging, since tumor and normal tissues are often inextricably intertwined in the brain. It is also extremely time consuming manually. Late deep learning techniques start to show reasonable success in brain tumor segmentation automatically. The purpose of this study is to develop a new region-ofinterest-aided (ROI-aided) deep learning technique for automatic brain tumor MRI segmentation. The method consists of two major steps. Step one is to use a 2D network with U-Net architecture to localize the tumor ROI, which is to reduce the impact of normal tissue’s disturbance. Then a 3D U-Net is performed in step 2 for tumor segmentation within identified ROI. The proposed method is validated on MICCAI BraTS 2015 Challenge with 220 high Gliomas grade (HGG) and 54 low Gliomas grade (LGG) patients’ data. The Dice similarity coefficient and the Hausdorff distance between the manual tumor contour and that segmented by the proposed method are 0.876 ±0.068 and 3.594±1.347 mm, respectively. These numbers are indications that our proposed method is an effective ROI-aided deep learning strategy for brain MRI tumor segmentation, and a valid and useful tool in medical image processing.


Author(s):  
Tasmiya Tazeen ◽  
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Mrinal Sarvagya ◽  

Intracranial tumors are a type of cancer that grows spontaneously inside the skull. Brain tumor is the cause for one in four deaths. Hence early detection of the tumor is important. For this aim, a variety of segmentation techniques are available. The fundamental disadvantage of present approaches is their low segmentation accuracy. With the help of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a preventive medical step of early detection and evaluation of brain tumor is done. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers detailed information on human delicate tissue, which aids in the diagnosis of a brain tumor. The proposed method in this paper is Brain Tumour Detection and Classification based on Ensembled Feature extraction and classification using CNN.


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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Assalah Atiyah ◽  
Khawla Ali

Brain tumors are collections of abnormal tissues within the brain. The regular function of the brain may be affected as it grows within the region of the skull. Brain tumors are critical for improving treatment options and patient survival rates to prevent and treat them. The diagnosis of cancer utilizing manual approaches for numerous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images is the most complex and time-consuming task. Brain tumor segmentation must be carried out automatically. A proposed strategy for brain tumor segmentation is developed in this paper. For this purpose, images are segmented based on region-based and edge-based. Brain tumor segmentation 2020 (BraTS2020) dataset is utilized in this study. A comparative analysis of the segmentation of images using the edge-based and region-based approach with U-Net with ResNet50 encoder, architecture is performed. The edge-based segmentation model performed better in all performance metrics compared to the region-based segmentation model and the edge-based model achieved the dice loss score of 0. 008768, IoU score of 0. 7542, f1 score of 0. 9870, the accuracy of 0. 9935, the precision of 0. 9852, recall of 0. 9888, and specificity of 0. 9951.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9(112)) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Wasan M. Jwaid ◽  
Zainab Shaker Matar Al-Husseini ◽  
Ahmad H. Sabry

Brain tumors are the growth of abnormal cells or a mass in a brain. Numerous kinds of brain tumors were discovered, which need accurate and early detection techniques. Currently, most diagnosis and detection methods rely on the decision of neuro-specialists and radiologists to evaluate brain images, which may be time-consuming and cause human errors. This paper proposes a robust U-Net deep learning Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model that can classify if the subject has a tumor or not based on Brain Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with acceptable accuracy for medical-grade application. The study built and trained the 3D U-Net CNN including encoding/decoding relationship architecture to perform the brain tumor segmentation because it requires fewer training images and provides more precise segmentation. The algorithm consists of three parts; the first part, the downsampling part, the bottleneck part, and the optimum part. The resultant semantic maps are inserted into the decoder fraction to obtain the full-resolution probability maps. The developed U-Net architecture has been applied on the MRI scan brain tumor segmentation dataset in MICCAI BraTS 2017. The results using Matlab-based toolbox indicate that the proposed architecture has been successfully evaluated and experienced for MRI datasets of brain tumor segmentation including 336 images as training data and 125 images for validation. This work demonstrated comparative performance and successful feasibility of implementing U-Net CNN architecture in an automated framework of brain tumor segmentations in Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MR Slices. The developed U-Net CNN model succeeded in performing the brain tumor segmentation task to classify the input brain images into a tumor or not based on the MRI dataset.


Author(s):  
Otman Basir ◽  
Kalifa Shantta

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in recognizing image signification for checking and mining medical image records. Brain tumor segmentation is a complicated assignment in medical image analysis. It is challenging to identify precisely and extract that a portion of the image has abnormal tissues for further diagnosis and analysis. The method of segmenting a tumor from a brain MRI image is a highly concentrated medical science community field, as MRI is non-invasive. In this survey, brain MRI images' latest brain tumor segmentation techniques are addressed a thoroughgoing literature review. Besides, surveys the several approved techniques regularly applied for brain tumor MRI segmentation. Also, highlighting variances among them and reviews their abilities, pros, and weaknesses. Various approaches to image segmentation are described and explicated with the modern participation of several investigators.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poornachandra Sandur ◽  
C. Naveena ◽  
V.N. Manjunath Aradhya ◽  
Nagasundara K. B.

The quantitative assessment of tumor extent is necessary for surgical planning, as well as monitoring of tumor growth or shrinkage, and radiotherapy planning. For brain tumors, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used as a standard for diagnosis and prognosis. Manually segmenting brain tumors from 3D MRI volumes is tedious and depends on inter and intra observer variability. In the clinical facilities, a reliable fully automatic brain tumor segmentation method is necessary for the accurate delineation of tumor sub regions. This article presents a 3D U-net Convolutional Neural Network for segmentation of a brain tumor. The proposed method achieves a mean dice score of 0.83, a specificity of 0.80 and a sensitivity of 0.81 for segmenting the whole tumor, and for the tumor core region a mean dice score of 0.76, a specificity of 0.79 and a sensitivity of 0.73. For the enhancing region, the mean dice score is 0.68, a specificity of 0.73 and a sensitivity of 0.77. From the experimental analysis, the proposed U-net model achieved considerably good results compared to the other segmentation models.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
He Huang ◽  
Wenbo Zhang ◽  
Ying Fang ◽  
Jialing Hong ◽  
Shuaixi Su ◽  
...  

As a highly malignant tumor, the incidence and mortality of glioma are not optimistic. Predicting the survival time of patients with glioma by extracting the feature information from gliomas is beneficial for doctors to develop more targeted treatments. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a way to quickly and clearly capture the details of brain tissue. However, manually segmenting brain tumors from MRI will cost doctors a lot of energy, and doctors can only vaguely estimate the survival time of glioma patients, which are not conducive to the formulation of treatment plans. Therefore, automatically segmenting brain tumors and accurately predicting survival time has important significance. In this article, we first propose the NLSE-VNet model, which integrates the Non-Local module and the Squeeze-and-Excitation module into V-Net to segment three brain tumor sub-regions in multimodal MRI. Then extract the intensity, texture, wavelet, shape and other radiological features from the tumor area, and use the CNN network to extract the deep features. The factor analysis method is used to reduce the dimensionality of features, and finally the dimensionality-reduced features and clinical features such as age and tumor grade are combined into the random forest regression model to predict survival. We evaluate the effect on the BraTS 2019 and BraTS 2020 datasets. The average Dice of brain tumor segmentation tasks up to 79% and the average RMSE of the survival predictive task is as low as 311.5. The results indicate that the method in this paper has great advantages in segmentation and survival prediction of gliomas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Isselmou Abd El Kader ◽  
Guizhi Xu ◽  
Zhang Shuai ◽  
Sani Saminu ◽  
Imran Javaid ◽  
...  

The classification of brain tumors is a difficult task in the field of medical image analysis. Improving algorithms and machine learning technology helps radiologists to easily diagnose the tumor without surgical intervention. In recent years, deep learning techniques have made excellent progress in the field of medical image processing and analysis. However, there are many difficulties in classifying brain tumors using magnetic resonance imaging; first, the difficulty of brain structure and the intertwining of tissues in it; and secondly, the difficulty of classifying brain tumors due to the high density nature of the brain. We propose a differential deep convolutional neural network model (differential deep-CNN) to classify different types of brain tumor, including abnormal and normal magnetic resonance (MR) images. Using differential operators in the differential deep-CNN architecture, we derived the additional differential feature maps in the original CNN feature maps. The derivation process led to an improvement in the performance of the proposed approach in accordance with the results of the evaluation parameters used. The advantage of the differential deep-CNN model is an analysis of a pixel directional pattern of images using contrast calculations and its high ability to classify a large database of images with high accuracy and without technical problems. Therefore, the proposed approach gives an excellent overall performance. To test and train the performance of this model, we used a dataset consisting of 25,000 brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images, which includes abnormal and normal images. The experimental results showed that the proposed model achieved an accuracy of 99.25%. This study demonstrates that the proposed differential deep-CNN model can be used to facilitate the automatic classification of brain tumors.


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