COMPARITIVE STUDY OF BRAIN TUMOR DETECTION USING MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS

Sneha Mohane, Megha Borse

Abstract: Segmentation divides an image into foreground object and the background object. In our case foreground object is brain tumor and background is CSF, white matter, and grey matter. Aim of our study is to detect the tumor and remove the background completely and compare the morphological operations that can be used for this purpose. Segmentation remains a challenging area for researchers since many segmentation methods results in over segmentation or under segmentation and hence, leads to the false interpretation of the results. The proposed work is the comparative study of the morphological segmentation methods for segmenting brain tumor from MRI images. Before segmentation, filtration process is carried out using two method, Non Local mean filter and median filter and their results are compared using MSE and PSNR. NL mean filter preserves sharp edges and fine details in an image hence, preferred over median filter. Also tumor location is identified, to get an approximate idea about the position of the tumor in the brain i.e. in which part the brain tumor is located. The tumor is identified by using different algorithms which are based on morphology such as watershed segmentation, morphological erosion, and hole filling algorithm and comparison between them is carried out based on parameters like accuracy, sensitivity and elapsed time. Each of the segmentation results are compared with the tumor obtained using interactive tool present in MATLAB R2013b.

Keywords: Brain tumor, MRI images, Image segmentation, Morphology, Erosion, Thresholding, Hole filling, Watershed segmentation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0403071