Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization

The brain is the most important organ of the human body. It has a complicated structure, and a precise segmentation of brain cerebral tissues plays an important role for tumor detection. Since the manual segmentation is tedious and time-consuming, automatic segmentation becomes a more attractive sub...

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spelling my-utm-ep.480342017-07-29T03:30:42Z Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization 2014-07 Zanganeh, Saeed QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The brain is the most important organ of the human body. It has a complicated structure, and a precise segmentation of brain cerebral tissues plays an important role for tumor detection. Since the manual segmentation is tedious and time-consuming, automatic segmentation becomes a more attractive subject to most researchers. Recently, many automatic segmentation methods have been proposed using clustering algorithms. Nonetheless, there are some remaining issues: noisy images and local optima. This study proposes a hybrid method by combining two clustering methods: FCM-FPSO and IFCM-PSO. In this research, a Gaussian filter is first applied as a pre-processing step to remove noises. Then, the enhanced image is segmented using a modified clustering method called Improved Fuzzy C-Means (IFCM). In IFCM, besides the target pixel intensity, the distance and intensity of the neighbours of the target pixel are used as the segmentation parameters. The presence of these parameters are helpful in case of the segmentation of noisy images. In order to prevent IFCM from falling into local optima, Fuzzy Particle Swarm Optimization (FPSO) is used to improve the parameter initialization step. FPSO is initialized by using a random membership function. The hybrid method is applied on thirty-one MRI brain tumor images collected from MICCAI 2012. The experimental results revealed that the F1-Measure of 79.98%, obtained by proposed hybrid method, is higher than that of the recent segmentation methods. 2014-07 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48034/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48034/25/SaeedZanganehMFK2014.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
Zanganeh, Saeed
Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
description The brain is the most important organ of the human body. It has a complicated structure, and a precise segmentation of brain cerebral tissues plays an important role for tumor detection. Since the manual segmentation is tedious and time-consuming, automatic segmentation becomes a more attractive subject to most researchers. Recently, many automatic segmentation methods have been proposed using clustering algorithms. Nonetheless, there are some remaining issues: noisy images and local optima. This study proposes a hybrid method by combining two clustering methods: FCM-FPSO and IFCM-PSO. In this research, a Gaussian filter is first applied as a pre-processing step to remove noises. Then, the enhanced image is segmented using a modified clustering method called Improved Fuzzy C-Means (IFCM). In IFCM, besides the target pixel intensity, the distance and intensity of the neighbours of the target pixel are used as the segmentation parameters. The presence of these parameters are helpful in case of the segmentation of noisy images. In order to prevent IFCM from falling into local optima, Fuzzy Particle Swarm Optimization (FPSO) is used to improve the parameter initialization step. FPSO is initialized by using a random membership function. The hybrid method is applied on thirty-one MRI brain tumor images collected from MICCAI 2012. The experimental results revealed that the F1-Measure of 79.98%, obtained by proposed hybrid method, is higher than that of the recent segmentation methods.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Zanganeh, Saeed
author_facet Zanganeh, Saeed
author_sort Zanganeh, Saeed
title Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
title_short Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
title_full Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
title_fullStr Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
title_full_unstemmed Automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy C-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
title_sort automatic brain tumor segmentation method using improved fuzzy c-means and fuzzy particle swarm optimization
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48034/25/SaeedZanganehMFK2014.pdf
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