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Region Growing for MRI Brain Tumor Volume Analysis


Affiliations
1 Dept. of E & IE, Apeejay College of Engg., Sohna, Gurgaon, India
2 Dept. of EE, IIT, Delhi, India
3 Vaish College of Engg., Rohtak, Haryana, India
4 Dept. of EE, DCRUST, Murthal, Sonepat, Haryana, India
 

The tumor volume is a significant prognostic factor in the treatment of malignant tumors. Manual segmentation of brain tumors from MR images is a challenging and time consuming task. A semi-automated region growing segmentation method is proposed to segment brain tumor from MR images. The proposed method can successfully segment a tumor provided that the parameters are set properly. This method is applied to 8-tumor contained MRI slices from 2 brain tumor patients' and satisfactory segmentation results are achieved.

Keywords

Brain Tumor, MRI, Imaging, Segmentation
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Authors

R. B. Dubey
Dept. of E & IE, Apeejay College of Engg., Sohna, Gurgaon, India
M. Hanmandlu
Dept. of EE, IIT, Delhi, India
S. K. Gupta
Vaish College of Engg., Rohtak, Haryana, India
S. K. Gupta
Dept. of EE, DCRUST, Murthal, Sonepat, Haryana, India

Abstract


The tumor volume is a significant prognostic factor in the treatment of malignant tumors. Manual segmentation of brain tumors from MR images is a challenging and time consuming task. A semi-automated region growing segmentation method is proposed to segment brain tumor from MR images. The proposed method can successfully segment a tumor provided that the parameters are set properly. This method is applied to 8-tumor contained MRI slices from 2 brain tumor patients' and satisfactory segmentation results are achieved.

Keywords


Brain Tumor, MRI, Imaging, Segmentation

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2009%2Fv2i9%2F29517