This research presents an independent stand-alone graphical computational tool which functions as a neurological disease prediction framework for diagnosis of neurological disorders to assist neurologists or researchers in the field to perform automatic segmentation of gray and white matter regions in brain MRI images. The tool was built in collaboration with neurologists and neurosurgeons and many of the features are based on their feedback. This tool provides the user automatized functionality to perform automatic segmentation and extract the gray and white matter regions of patient brain image data using an algorithm called adapted fuzzy c-means (FCM) membership-based clustering with preprocessing using the elliptical Hough transform and postprocessing using connected region analysis. Dice coefficients for several patient brain MRI images were calculated to measure the similarity between the manual tracings by experts and automatic segmentations obtained in this research. The average Dice coefficients are 0.86 for gray matter, 0.88 for white matter, and 0.87 for total cortical matter. Dice coefficients of the proposed algorithm were also the highest when compared with previously published standard state-of-the-art brain MRI segmentation algorithms in terms of accuracy in segmenting the gray matter, white matter, and total cortical matter.
30 December 2022 in International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Research
Brain Tumor (BT) categorization is an indispensable task for evaluating Tumors and making an appropriate treatment. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) modality is commonly used for such an errand due to its unparalleled nature of the imaging and the actuality that it doesn't rely upon ionizing radiations. The pertinence of Deep Learning (DL) in the space of imaging has cleared the way for exceptional advancements in identifying and classifying complex medical conditions, similar to a BT. Here in the presented paper, the classification of BT through DL techniques is put forward for the characterizing BTs using open dataset which categorize them into benign and malignant. The proposed framework achieves a striking precision of 96.65%. The proposed framework can be employed to assist physicians and radiologists in validating their initial screening for brain tumor classification.