Brain tumor segmentation using thresholding, morphological operations and extraction of features of tumor

Brain is the most important and vital organ of the human body. The control and coordination of all the other vital structures is carried out by the brain. The tumor is formed by the uncontrolled multiplication of cell division. Numerous techniques were developed to detect and segment the brain tumor. Using thresholding and morphological operations efficient brain tumor segmentation is carried out. This is the efficient algorithm where segmentation of tumor is carried out and its features such as centroid, perimeter and area are calculated from the segmented tumor. To detect the brain tumor, scanned MRI images are given as the input. The work involved here helps in medical field to detect tumor and its features helps in giving the treatment plan to the patient. The entire paper is divided in to seven sections which are described in detailed in the following sections.