Tumor Extraction and Volume Estimation for T1-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Brain Images

S.Satheesh, Dr.K.V.S.V.R Prasad, Dr. K. Jitender Reddy

Volume 12 Issue 12

Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Magneticresonanceimaging (MRI)isasignificantimagingtechnologyfor brain tumor diagnosis because physicians can identify precise pathologies by studying thevariationsoftissuecharacteristicsthatoccursinvarious kinds of MR images. Segmentation of MRI is a pre-process in determining the volume of different brain tissues, but here tumor detection is of primary concern. We proposed a method to extract tumors as seen through MR brain images using co-clustering and morphological operationsanditsvolumeestimationwasdoneby Cavalier’sestimatorofmorphometricvolumemethod. Quantitative analysis showed that the proposed method yielded better results incomparison with fuzzy c-means algorithm (FCM)