A Novel Segmentation and Contouring Scheme to Assist Accurate Brain Lesion Classification

Authors

  • S. Madhukumar Professor & Head Department of ECE St. Joseph's College of Engineering & Technology, palai Kottayam, Kerala, India - 686579
  • N. Santhiyakumari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/jbemi.16.546

Keywords:

Magnetic Resonance Brain images, class separable shape sensitive segmentation, Energy Minimizing Contours, Image Enhancement.

Abstract

Segmentation of highly infiltrating glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in BrainMR Images has been highly challenging as the grey levels of tumor and peritumoral vasogenic edema are quite homogenous and hence identifying a suitable scheme for isolating GBM from the background has been troublesome.This paper proposes a novel segmentation and contouring scheme, using shape sensitive derivative strategy for segmentation and energy minimizing contours for enhancing the edges of the GBM, under investigation. The efficiency of the algorithm has been tested with the aid of extracted tumor features,  the Shape Features -circularity, irregularity, Area, Perimeter, Shape Index, Intensity features – Mean, Variance, Standard Variance, Median Intensity, Skewness, and Kurtosis, Texture features –Contrast, Correlation, Entropy, Energy, Homogeneity, cluster shade, sum of square variance. It is obvious, though this algorithm consumes more computational time, it segments the edges effectively and preserve the shape facilitating accurate extraction or estimation of the features further and provides stable and reproducible results. All the classification Schemes, with combined DA and SVM with Higher Rank Features and LDA techniques exhibited appreciable improvement  in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive Predictive value and negative Predictive value, because of the accuracy of shape sensitive derivative segmentation algorithm and energy minimizing contour algorithm.

Author Biography

S. Madhukumar, Professor & Head Department of ECE St. Joseph's College of Engineering & Technology, palai Kottayam, Kerala, India - 686579

Prof. Madhukumar.S  is a professor of Department of Electronics & Communication, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering & Technology, Palai, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He received his M.Tech from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India. He is having more than twenty years experience in teaching in various Universities in India and abroad.

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Published

2015-01-06

How to Cite

Madhukumar, S., & Santhiyakumari, N. (2015). A Novel Segmentation and Contouring Scheme to Assist Accurate Brain Lesion Classification. British Journal of Healthcare and Medical Research, 1(6). https://doi.org/10.14738/jbemi.16.546