• DocumentCode
    2382335
  • Title

    MRI brain image segmentation for spotting tumors using improved mountain clustering approach

  • Author

    Verma, Nishchal K. ; Gupta, Payal ; Agrawal, Pooja ; Cui, Yan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kanpur, India
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    14-16 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    This paper presents improved mountain clustering technique based MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) brain image segmentation for spotting tumors. The proposed technique is compared with some existing techniques such as K-Means and FCM, clustering. The performance of all these clustering techniques is compared in terms of cluster entropy as a measure of information and also is visually compared for image segmentation of various brain tumor MRI images. The cluster entropy is heuristically determined, but is found to be effective in forming correct clusters as verified by visual assessment.
  • Keywords
    biomedical MRI; brain models; image segmentation; medical image processing; pattern clustering; tumours; FCM clustering; MRI brain image segmentation; cluster entropy; k-means clustering; magnetic resonance imaging; mountain clustering approach; tumor spotting; Application software; Biomedical image processing; Brain; Clustering algorithms; Clustering methods; Entropy; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neoplasms; Surgery; Clustering; Expectation Maximization; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; fuzzy clustering; image segmentation; modified mountain clustering; validity function Cluster Entropy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPRW), 2009 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • ISSN
    1550-5219
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5146-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1550-5219
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AIPR.2009.5466301
  • Filename
    5466301