Brain Tumor Segmentation to Calculate Percentage Tumor Using MRI

Abstract

Brain tumor is one of disease type that attacks the brain in the form of clots. There is a way to see brain tumor in detail requires by an MRI image. There is difficulty in distinguishing brain tumor tissue from normal tissue because of the similar color. Brain tumor must be analyzed accurately. The solution for analyze brain tumor is doing segmentation. Brain tumor segmentation is done to separate brain tumor tissue from other tissues such as fat, edema, normal brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid to overcome this difficulty, The MRI image must be maintained at the edge of the image first with the median filtering. Then the tumor segmentation process requires thresholding method which is then iterated to take the largest area. The brain segmentation is done by giving a mark on the area of the brain and areas outside the brain using watershed method then clearing skull with cropping method. In this study, 14 brain tumor MRI images are used. The segmentation results are compared brain tumors area and brain tissues area. This system obtained the calculation of tumor area has an average error of 10%.