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Output Waveforms of proposed zeta V i , V o &V co Brain image datasets There are different kinds of datasets are available [6], namely the Multimodal Brain Tumor image Segmentation (BRATS), Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS), Magnetization Prepared Rapid Acquisition Gradient Echo (MPRAGE) and Internet Brain Segmentation Repository(IBSR V2.0). Medical image consist of array of 2D images (x1, x2..n). In a single image, x be the image patch of size u*v from image space I. Focusing on 2D patches, a patch x is represented as x (u, v, I) where (u, v) denotes the patch top left corner coordinates in multimodal image I(s, V ) where s denotes the slice position in image volume V. The tumor can present in all 2 dimensional MRI images. Each slice has four intra-tumor structures like necrotic, edema, non-enhancing and enhanced tumor. This proposed method will have to classify these tumor regions by using CNN. MRI Pre-processing Methods Most segmentation methods implement an identical processing pipeline. These pipelines are pre-processing, classification and post processing steps. Before classifying tumor region, Pre-processing methods have been applied for de-noising, skull-stripping, intensity normalization, etc [6]. Noises present in MRI images have removed by delineate region of interest between brain tumor and normal brain tissues. The non-cerebral tissue region such as skull and scalp are removed in the skull stripping methods. Intensity of same tissue can vary across the image. So, we have to normalize the intensities before segmenting brain tumor. Most medical images have been used N4ITK and Nyul et al intensity
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Brain tumor extraction from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important task in medical image processing. It is one of the difficult and time consuming tasks because the structural variability among the tumor is entirely different from normal images. Manual segmentation requires expert knowledge and it has very less accuracy. So, we need intel...
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... Brain MRIs having tumors are hard to classify for specialists and experts. There are many existing schemes to solve this issue, which are complex and having less accuracy [10,37,38,40]. In all these schemes, data are collected from various secure and public sources [1, 3, 4, 9, 14, 15, 21, 23, 25, 29-34, 39, 47]. ...
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Segmentation is one of the critical steps in analyzing medical images since it provides meaningful information for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of brain tumors. In recent years, several artificial intelligence-based systems have been developed to perform this task accurately. However, the unobtrusive or low-contrast occurrence of some tumors and similarities to healthy brain tissues make the segmentation task challenging. These yielded researchers to develop new methods for preprocessing the images and improving their segmentation abilities.
Methods:
This study proposes an efficient system for the segmentation of the complete brain tumors from MRI images based on tumor localization and enhancement methods with a deep learning architecture named U-net. Initially, the histogram-based nonparametric tumor localization method is applied to localize the tumorous regions and the proposed tumor enhancement method is used to modify the localized regions to increase the visual appearance of indistinct or low-contrast tumors. The resultant images are fed to the original U-net architecture to segment the complete brain tumors.
Results:
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Conclusion:
The results and comparisons showed how the proposed methods improve the segmentation ability of the deep learning models and provide high-accuracy and low-cost segmentation of complete brain tumors in MRI images. The results might yield the implementation of the proposed methods in segmentation tasks of different medical fields.
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