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A Fuzzy clustering based MRI brain image segmentation using back propagation neural networks

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The paper focuses on how a brain image is being segmented to diagnose the brain tumor by using spatial fuzzy clustering algorithm. The segmentation process may cause error while diagonizing MR images due to the artifacts and noises exist in it. This may leads to misclassify the normal tissue as abnormal tissue. The proposed method is to segment normal tissues such as White Matter, Gray Matter, Cerebrospinal fluid and abnormal tissue like tumor part from MR images automatically. It comprises of pre-processing step, using wrapping based curvelet transform to remove noise and modified spatial fuzzy C-Means algorithm (Liu et al. in Tsinghua Sci Technol 19(6):578–595, 2014; Kwak and Choi in IEEE Trans Neural Netw 13(1):143–159, 2014) segments normal tissues by considering spatial information. The neighboring pixels are highly correlated and construct initial membership matrix randomly. The process is also intended to segment the tumor cells as well as the removal of background noises for smoothening the region, results in presenting segmented tissues and parameter evaluation to produce the algorithm efficiency.

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Senthilkumar, C., Gnanamurthy, R.K. A Fuzzy clustering based MRI brain image segmentation using back propagation neural networks. Cluster Comput 22 (Suppl 5), 12305–12312 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-017-1613-x

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