Recent advancements in Fuzzy C-means based techniques for brain MRI Segmentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazanfar Latif ◽  
Jaafar Alghazo ◽  
Fadi N. Sibai ◽  
D.N.F. Awang Iskandar ◽  
Adil H. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Anatomy ◽  
Mri Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Fuzzy C Means

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.

scholarly journals Brain MRI Images Segmentation Based on U-Net Architecture

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Assalah Atiyah ◽  
Khawla Ali
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Regular Function ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Edge Based ◽  
The Brain

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.

SDResU-Net: Separable and Dilated Residual U-Net for MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 720-728
Author(s):  
Jianxin Zhang ◽  
Xiaogang Lv ◽  
Qiule Sun ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Xiaopeng Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Cancer Disease ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Mri Brain ◽  
The Arts

Background: Glioma is one of the most common and aggressive primary brain tumors that endanger human health. Tumors segmentation is a key step in assisting the diagnosis and treatment of cancer disease. However, it is a relatively challenging task to precisely segment tumors considering characteristics of brain tumors and the device noise. Recently, with the breakthrough development of deep learning, brain tumor segmentation methods based on fully convolutional neural network (FCN) have illuminated brilliant performance and attracted more and more attention. Methods: In this work, we propose a novel FCN based network called SDResU-Net for brain tumor segmentation, which simultaneously embeds dilated convolution and separable convolution into residual U-Net architecture. SDResU-Net introduces dilated block into a residual U-Net architecture, which largely expends the receptive field and gains better local and global feature descriptions capacity. Meanwhile, to fully utilize the channel and region information of MRI brain images, we separate the internal and inter-slice structures of the improved residual U-Net by employing separable convolution operator. The proposed SDResU-Net captures more pixel-level details and spatial information, which provides a considerable alternative for the automatic and accurate segmentation of brain tumors. Results and Conclusion: The proposed SDResU-Net is extensively evaluated on two public MRI brain image datasets, i.e., BraTS 2017 and BraTS 2018. Compared with its counterparts and stateof- the-arts, SDResU-Net gains superior performance on both datasets, showing its effectiveness. In addition, cross-validation results on two datasets illuminate its satisfying generalization ability.

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 991
Author(s):  
Samah Abdelaziz ◽  
Songfeng Lu
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Level Set ◽  
Medical Image ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri

<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>

scholarly journals Brain Tumor Classification and Segmentation using Mask R-CNN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 667-668
Author(s):  
Kishore D
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Manual Segmentation ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Mri Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
High Consistency

MRI segmentation is a crucial task in many clinical applications. A variety of approaches for brain analysis rely on accurate segmentation of anatomical regions. Quantitative analysis of brain MRI has been used extensively for the characterization of brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and many infectious, degenerative diseases. Manual Segmentation requires outlining structures slice-by-slice, it is not only expensive and tedious but also inaccurate due to human error. Also, manual segmentation is extremely time-consuming and initial hours of brain tumor and strokes are crucial to diagnose it. Therefore, automated segmentation procedures are needed to ensure accuracy close to that of experts with high consistency. We propose to create a Deep Learning based Brain Segmentation solution that would fully automate the process of Brain Tumor Segmentation to solve those cases which are generally missed by the human eye and save time.

IBRDM: An Intelligent Framework for Brain Tumor Classification Using Radiomics- and DWT-based Fusion of MRI Sequences

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Rahul Kumar ◽  
Ankur Gupta ◽  
Harkirat Singh Arora ◽  
Balasubramanian Raman
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Tumor Classification ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Mri Sequences

Brain tumors are one of the critical malignant neurological cancers with the highest number of deaths and injuries worldwide. They are categorized into two major classes, high-grade glioma (HGG) and low-grade glioma (LGG), with HGG being more aggressive and malignant, whereas LGG tumors are less aggressive, but if left untreated, they get converted to HGG. Thus, the classification of brain tumors into the corresponding grade is a crucial task, especially for making decisions related to treatment. Motivated by the importance of such critical threats to humans, we propose a novel framework for brain tumor classification using discrete wavelet transform-based fusion of MRI sequences and Radiomics feature extraction. We utilized the Brain Tumor Segmentation 2018 challenge training dataset for the performance evaluation of our approach, and we extract features from three regions of interest derived using a combination of several tumor regions. We used wrapper method-based feature selection techniques for selecting a significant set of features and utilize various machine learning classifiers, Random Forest, Decision Tree, and Extra Randomized Tree for training the model. For proper validation of our approach, we adopt the five-fold cross-validation technique. We achieved state-of-the-art performance considering several performance metrics, 〈 Acc , Sens , Spec , F1-score , MCC , AUC 〉 ≡ 〈 98.60%, 99.05%, 97.33%, 99.05%, 96.42%, 98.19% 〉, where Acc , Sens , Spec , F1-score , MCC , and AUC represents the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F1-score, Matthews correlation coefficient, and area-under-the-curve, respectively. We believe our proposed approach will play a crucial role in the planning of clinical treatment and guidelines before surgery.

scholarly journals Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI Images using Convolution Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 2051-2054
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Exact Position ◽  
The Brain

Medical image processing is an important task in current scenario as more and more humans are diagnosed with various medical issues. Brain tumor (BT) is one of the problems that is increasing at a rapid rate and its early detection is important in increasing the survival rate of humans. Detection of tumor from Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) of brain is very difficult when done manually and also time consuming. Further the tumors assume different shapes and may be present in any portion of the brain. Hence identification of the tumor poses an important task in the lives of human and it is necessary to identify its exact position in the brain and the affected regions. The proposed algorithm makes use of deep learning concepts for automatic segmentation of the tumor from the MRI brain images. The algorithm is implemented using MATLAB and an accuracy of 99.1% is achieved.

Brain Tumor Segmentation Based on Region of Interest-Aided Localization and Segmentation U-Net

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shidong Li ◽  
Jianwei Liu ◽  
Zhanjie Song
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Medical Image ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Medical Image Processing ◽  
Tumor Segmentation ◽  
Dice Similarity Coefficient ◽  
Brain Tumor Segmentation ◽  
The Impact

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.

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