An Effective Brain Tumor Detection System Using Extended Linear Boosting (ELB) Classification Algorithm

Abstract

Automated computer-aided soft computing methods are presently used to detect the tumor regions in brain images. In this paper, the tumor cells are detected in the brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) using the Extended Linear Boosting (ELB) classification method as one type of soft computing process. This paper proposes an effective brain tumor detection and segmentation method using the ELB classification method. The Curvelet transform is applied on the source brain MRI image to convert the spatial domain pixels into multi-resolution pixel. The spectral and linear discriminate features are computed from the Curvelet transformed coefficient matrix. The dimensionality of the computed features is reduced using the PCA method and the optimized features are then classified using the ELB classification method. The performance evaluation metrics, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and detection rate, are used in this paper to evaluate the performance of the proposed brain tumor detection and segmentation system.