Sparse Coding for Brain Tumor Segmentation Based on the Non-Linear Features

Author(s):  
G. Sandhya ◽  
Amalapurapu Srinag ◽  
Ganesh Babu Pantangi ◽  
Joel Abhishek Kanaparthi

The main aim of brain Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) segmentation is to extractthe significant objects like tumors for better diagnosis and proper treatment. As the brain tumors are distinct in the sense of shapes, location, and intensity it is hard to define a general algorithm for the tumor segmentation. Accurate extraction of tumors from the brain MRIs is a challenging task due to the complex anatomical structure of brain tissues in addition to the existence of intensity inhomogeneity, partial volume effects, and noise. In this paper, a method of Sparse coding based on non-linear features is proposed for the tumor segmentation from MR images of the brain. Initially, first and second-order statistical eigenvectors of 3 × 3 size are extracted from the MRIs then the process of Sparse coding is applied to them. The kernel dictionary learning algorithm is employed to obtain the non-linear features from these processed vectors to build two individual adaptive dictionaries for healthy and pathological tissues. This work proposes dictionary learning based kernel clustering algorithm to code the pixels, and then the target pixelsare classified by utilizing the method of linear discrimination. The proposed technique is applied to several tumor MRIs, taken from the BRATS database. This technique overcomes the problem of linear inseparability produced by the high level intensity similarity between the normal and abnormal tissues of the given brain image. All the performance parameters are high for the proposed technique. Comparison of the results with some other existing methods such as Fuzzy – C- Means (FCM), Hybrid k-Mean Graph Cut (HKMGC) and Neutrosophic Set – Expert Maximum Fuzzy Sure Entropy (NS-EMFSE) demonstrates that the proposed sparse coding method is effective in segmenting the brain tumor regions.

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saif Dawood Salman Al-Shaikhli ◽  
Michael Ying Yang ◽  
Bodo Rosenhahn

AbstractThis paper presents a novel fully automatic framework for multi-class brain tumor classification and segmentation using a sparse coding and dictionary learning method. The proposed framework consists of two steps: classification and segmentation. The classification of the brain tumors is based on brain topology and texture. The segmentation is based on voxel values of the image data. Using K-SVD, two types of dictionaries are learned from the training data and their associated ground truth segmentation: feature dictionary and voxel-wise coupled dictionaries. The feature dictionary consists of global image features (topological and texture features). The coupled dictionaries consist of coupled information: gray scale voxel values of the training image data and their associated label voxel values of the ground truth segmentation of the training data. For quantitative evaluation, the proposed framework is evaluated using different metrics. The segmentation results of the brain tumor segmentation (MICCAI-BraTS-2013) database are evaluated using five different metric scores, which are computed using the online evaluation tool provided by the BraTS-2013 challenge organizers. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves an accurate brain tumor classification and segmentation and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 380-390
Author(s):  
Pradipta Kumar Mishra ◽  
Suresh Chandra Satapathy ◽  
Minakhi Rout

Abstract Segmentation of brain image should be done accurately as it can help to predict deadly brain tumor disease so that it can be possible to control the malicious segments of brain image if known beforehand. The accuracy of the brain tumor analysis can be enhanced through the brain tumor segmentation procedure. Earlier DCNN models do not consider the weights as of learning instances which may decrease accuracy levels of the segmentation procedure. Considering the above point, we have suggested a framework for optimizing the network parameters such as weight and bias vector of DCNN models using swarm intelligent based algorithms like Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO) and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA). The simulation results reveals that the WOA optimized DCNN segmentation model is outperformed than other three optimization based DCNN models i.e., GA-DCNN, PSO-DCNN, GWO-DCNN.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Wei Lin ◽  
Yu Hong ◽  
Jinfu Liu

Abstract Background Glioma is a malignant brain tumor; its location is complex and is difficult to remove surgically. To diagnosis the brain tumor, doctors can precisely diagnose and localize the disease using medical images. However, the computer-assisted diagnosis for the brain tumor diagnosis is still the problem because the rough segmentation of the brain tumor makes the internal grade of the tumor incorrect. Methods In this paper, we proposed an Aggregation-and-Attention Network for brain tumor segmentation. The proposed network takes the U-Net as the backbone, aggregates multi-scale semantic information, and focuses on crucial information to perform brain tumor segmentation. To this end, we proposed an enhanced down-sampling module and Up-Sampling Layer to compensate for the information loss. The multi-scale connection module is to construct the multi-receptive semantic fusion between encoder and decoder. Furthermore, we designed a dual-attention fusion module that can extract and enhance the spatial relationship of magnetic resonance imaging and applied the strategy of deep supervision in different parts of the proposed network. Results Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed framework is the best on the BraTS2020 dataset, compared with the-state-of-art networks. The performance of the proposed framework surpasses all the comparison networks, and its average accuracies of the four indexes are 0.860, 0.885, 0.932, and 1.2325, respectively. Conclusions The framework and modules of the proposed framework are scientific and practical, which can extract and aggregate useful semantic information and enhance the ability of glioma segmentation.


Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Yue Zhao ◽  
Xiaoqiang Ren ◽  
Kun Hou ◽  
Wentao Li

Automated brain tumor segmentation based on 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical to disease diagnosis. Moreover, robust and accurate achieving automatic extraction of brain tumor is a big challenge because of the inherent heterogeneity of the tumor structure. In this paper, we present an efficient semantic segmentation 3D recurrent multi-fiber network (RMFNet), which is based on encoder–decoder architecture to segment the brain tumor accurately. 3D RMFNet is applied in our paper to solve the problem of brain tumor segmentation, including a 3D recurrent unit and 3D multi-fiber unit. First of all, we propose that recurrent units segment brain tumors by connecting recurrent units and convolutional layers. This quality enhances the model’s ability to integrate contextual information and is of great significance to enhance the contextual information. Then, a 3D multi-fiber unit is added to the overall network to solve the high computational cost caused by the use of a 3D network architecture to capture local features. 3D RMFNet combines both advantages from a 3D recurrent unit and 3D multi-fiber unit. Extensive experiments on the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) 2018 challenge dataset show that our RMFNet remarkably outperforms state-of-the-art methods, and achieves average Dice scores of 89.62%, 83.65% and 78.72% for the whole tumor, tumor core and enhancing tumor, respectively. The experimental results prove our architecture to be an efficient tool for brain tumor segmentation accurately.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 2051-2054

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.


This paper presents brain tumor detection and segmentation using image processing techniques. Convolutional neural networks can be applied for medical research in brain tumor analysis. The tumor in the MRI scans is segmented using the K-means clustering algorithm which is applied of every scan and the feed it to the convolutional neural network for training and testing. In our CNN we propose to use ReLU and Sigmoid activation functions to determine our end result. The training is done only using the CPU power and no GPU is used. The research is done in two phases, image processing and applying neural network.


2018 ◽  
pp. 2402-2419
Author(s):  
Jyotsna Rani ◽  
Ram Kumar ◽  
Fazal A. Talukdar ◽  
Nilanjan Dey

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7790
Author(s):  
Duc-Ky Ngo ◽  
Minh-Trieu Tran ◽  
Soo-Hyung Kim ◽  
Hyung-Jeong Yang ◽  
Guee-Sang Lee

Segmenting brain tumors accurately and reliably is an essential part of cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Brain tumor segmentation of glioma patients is a challenging task because of the wide variety of tumor sizes, shapes, positions, scanning modalities, and scanner’s acquisition protocols. Many convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have been proposed to solve the problem of brain tumor segmentation and achieved great success. However, most previous studies do not fully take into account multiscale tumors and often fail to segment small tumors, which may have a significant impact on finding early-stage cancers. This paper deals with the brain tumor segmentation of any sizes, but specially focuses on accurately identifying small tumors, thereby increasing the performance of the brain tumor segmentation of overall sizes. Instead of using heavyweight networks with multi-resolution or multiple kernel sizes, we propose a novel approach for better segmentation of small tumors by dilated convolution and multi-task learning. Dilated convolution is used for multiscale feature extraction, however it does not work well with very small tumor segmentation. For dealing with small-sized tumors, we try multi-task learning, where an auxiliary task of feature reconstruction is used to retain the features of small tumors. The experiment shows the effectiveness of segmenting small tumors with the proposed method. This paper contributes to the detection and segmentation of small tumors, which have seldom been considered before and the new development of hierarchical analysis using multi-task learning.


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