Brain tumor extraction from MRI brain images using marker based watershed algorithm

Abstract

Human brain is the most complex and mysterious part of human body. Many complex functions are controlled by brain. Brain imaging is a widely applicable method for diagnosing many brain abnormalities such as brain tumor, stroke, paralysis etc. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the methods used for brain imaging. It is used for analysing internal structures in detail. Brain tumor is an abnormal mass of tissue in which cells grow and multiply uncontrollably, seemingly unchecked by the mechanisms that control normal cells. The aim of this paper is to extract tumor region from the brain MRI image using watershed algorithm based on different feature combinations such as colour, edge, orientation and texture. The results are compared with the ground truth images. Here we used marker based watershed algorithm for extracting tumored region and Dice and Tanimoto coefficients are used for comparison of the results. The method proposed here is found to be producing a promising result.