A powerful magnetic field and high-frequency radio waves are used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create highly detailed images. By examining anomalies in the brain, spinal cord, muscles and liver, MRI can be utilised to identify specifics about soft tissues. MRI is very helpful in finding cancers in these tissues. Brain images from MRI often suffer from insufficient detail and contrast. This study focused on improving brain images from MRI by relying on c-mean fuzzy segmentation to enhance and preserve the detail of the images and applying adaptive histogram equalisation with the introduction of a smoothing median filter for reducing blurring and increasing contrast using the sigmoid function. The method was compared with several methods, such as local fractional entropy, Riesz fractional, dual illumination estimation, fuzzy logic based on the sigmoid membership function, fuzzy and spline based dynamic histogram equalisation and modified colour histogram equalisation, by calculating quality standards, namely, NIQE and BRISQUE. Results show that the method obtained the best results, namely, 5.4003 (NIQE) and 36.614 (BRISQUE) values.