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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPRW), 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5146-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-5219
DOI :
10.1109/AIPR.2009.5466301