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Human visual system based optimized mathematical morphology approach for enhancement of brain MR images

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Brain tumor is a life-threatening disease with fast growth rate, which makes its detection a critical task. However, low contrast and noise content in brain magnetic resonance images (MRI) hampers the screening of brain tumor. Therefore, contrast enhancement of these images are necessary to obtain a more definitive imaging for tumor detection. This paper presents an optimized enhancement model for processing Brain MRI by employing morphological filters in coherence with human visual system (HVS) system. The HVS coherence in response of filtering process is incorporated by combination of top-hat and bottom-hat morphological operators using logarithmic image processing model. Application of morphological filter requires selection of structuring element of requisite shape and size to ensure precision in brain tumor detection. This process is challenging as brain tumors (in MRI) may vary rigorously in size and morphology with each case or stages of tumor. Herein, this constraint has been resolved by using a disk-shaped structuring element whose order (size) is optimized using particle swarm optimization algorithm. The enhancement results are quantitatively evaluated using image quality measurement parameters like contrast improvement index, average signal to noise ratio, peak signal to noise ratio and measure of enhancement.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow, UP, 226028, India

    Vikrant Bhateja, Mansi Nigam, Anuj Singh Bhadauria & Anu Arya

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Eugene Yu-Dong Zhang

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Bhateja, V., Nigam, M., Bhadauria, A.S. et al. Human visual system based optimized mathematical morphology approach for enhancement of brain MR images. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 15, 799–807 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01386-z

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