Region growing for MRI brain tumor volume analysis

R  B  Dubey; M  Hanmandlu; S  K  Gupta  and S  K  Gupta

doi:10.17485/ijst/2009/v2i9.10

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Region growing for MRI brain tumor volume analysis

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2009/v2i9.10

Year: 2009, Volume: 2, Issue: 9, Pages: 26-31

Original Article

Region growing for MRI brain tumor volume analysis

R. B. Dubey¹ , M. Hanmandlu² , S. K. Gupta³ and S. K. Gupta⁴

¹Dept. of E & IE, Apeejay College of Engg., Sohna, Gurgaon, India;
²Dept. of EE, IIT, Delhi, India
³Vaish College of Engg., Rohtak, Haryana,
⁴Dept. of EE, DCRUST, Murthal, Sonepat, Haryana, India

*Author for the correspondence:
S. K. Gupta
Dept. of EE, DCRUST, Murthal, Sonepat,
Haryana, India
E-mail: [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The tumor volume is a significant prognostic factor in the treatment of malignant tumors. Manual segmentation of brain tumors from MR images is a challenging and time consuming task. A semi-automated region growing segmentation method is proposed to segment brain tumor from MR images. The proposed method can successfully segment a tumor provided that the parameters are set properly. This method is applied to 8-tumor contained MRI slices from 2 brain tumor patients’ and satisfactory segmentation results are achieved.

Keywords: Brain tumor, MRI, imaging, segmentation.