A Novel Method of Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Extensive Feature Set

Abstract

Brain tissue Segmentation from the MRI images is having significance in the medical research field. The accurate Segmentation of the normal as well as the abnormal tissues is the complex assignment in this process. Because of the inconsistency and difficulty of abnormal tissues, MRI Brain Image Segmentation turned into more hard procedure. In this paper, a technique is proposed for segmenting the abnormalities such as Tumor and Atrophy in the MRI Brain images. (1) Feature extraction (2) Classification (3) Segmentation are the three stages offered in this work. At first, the features such as energy, entropy, homogeneity, contrast and correlation from MRI Brain Images are extracted. Next, by utilizing Neuro-Fuzzy classifier, the Classification process is carried out and for this process, the feature set is specified as the input. From the outcome of Classification, the images are categorized into normal as well as abnormal. The further procedure Segmentation is performed according to this outcome only. The abnormal MRI images are segmented into abnormal tissues like Tumor and Atrophy using Region Growing method. Utilizing MATLAB platform the implementation of the proposed technique is made. The experimentation is carried out on the MRI Brain Images by BrainWeb data sets. The performance of our proposed technique is assessed with the help of the metrics namely FPR, FNR, Specificity, Sensitivity and Accuracy. Therefore, using our proposed technique with enhanced classification, the abnormal tissues of MRI Brain images are segmented accurately.