Diagnose brain tumor through MRI using image processing clustering algorithms such as Fuzzy C Means along with intelligent optimization techniques

Abstract

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the best technologies currently being used for diagnosing brain tumor. Brain tumor is diagnosed at advanced stages with the help of the MRI image. Segmentation is an important process to extract suspicious region from complex medical images. Automatic detection of brain tumor through MRI can provide the valuable outlook and accuracy of earlier brain tumor detection. In this paper an intelligent system is designed to diagnose brain tumor through MRI using image processing clustering algorithms such as Fuzzy C Means along with intelligent optimization tools, such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The detection of tumor is performed in two phases: Preprocessing and Enhancement in the first phase and segmentation and classification in the second phase.