A Review on Performance Evaluation of Image Processing Technique for Brain Tumor Detection

Abstract

Brain tumor is an uncontrolled growth of tissues in any part of the body. Tumors are of different types and characteristics and have different treatments. Detection of tumor in the earlier stages makes the treatment easier. Presently many medical imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET), X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for tumor detection are in use among which MRI imaging technique is more attractive because of its higher resolution and therefore most preferred technique for diagnosing tumor. MRI scan is safer than any other scan as it does not involve any radiations and gives high resolution of image. Paper gives a brief review of different segmentation and classification methods used for detection of tumor from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI).