A Novel Clustering Based Segmentation of Multispectral Magnetic Resonance Images
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Abstract
The application of image processing techniques has rapidly increased in recent years. Medical images almost are stored and
represented digitally [26]. Medical image segmentation has very important rule in many computer aided diagnostic tools. These tools could save
clinicians time by simplifying the time consuming process [27]. The brain images segmentation is a complicated and challenging task. However,
accurate segmentation of these images is very important for detecting tumors, edema, and necrotic tissues. Moreover, accurate detecting of these
tissues is very important in diagnosis systems. Data acquisition, processing and visualization techniques facilitate diagnosis. Image
segmentation is an established necessity for an improved analysis of Magnetic Resonance (MR) images. Segmentation from MR images may aid
in tumor treatment by tracking the progress of tumor growth and shrinkage. The advantages of Magnetic Resonance Imaging are that the spatial
resolution is high and provides detailed images. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data are a major challenge to any image processing
software because of the huge amount of image voxels [8]. Magnetic Resonance Imaging has proved to provide high quality medical images and
is widely used especially for brain [9]. The various MR image slices of the brain are recorded depending on the tasks the patient is performing.
The MR feature images used for the segmentation consist of three weighted images namely T1, T2 and Proton Density (PD) for each axial slice
through the head. In this paper, a novel algorithm is presented for unsupervised segmentation of multi-spectral images, based on the research,
through neural network techniques, of an optimized space in which to perform clustering. Tests performed on both real and simulated MR
images shows good result, encouraging the application to different medical targets and further investigation.
Keywords: Image Voxels, Neural Networks, Image Segmentation, Self-Organizing maps, clustering
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