Resonance Image Enhancement using Hybrid Center Weighted Median Filter and Bacteria Foraging Optimization

Abstract

Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) is the best imaging technique employed nowadays for diagnosing brain tumour in the initial stage. This paper recommends an unique method for the brain MR image enhancement, that is centred on the Hybrid Center Weighted Median (HCWM) filter and Bacteria Foraging Optimization (BFO). The MR image for this research is obtained from the online and it is pre-processed to remove all the film artifacts. After that the high frequency components are eliminated from the MR brain image by means of a newly proposed HCWM filter. HCWM Filter is the hybrid filter derived by combining the Center Weighted Median Filter and the Weiner Filter. The swarm-based intelligence algorithm called the bacteria foraging optimization is used to predict the weights of the filter dynamically. The performance of the proposed filtering approach is evaluated with the other available filtering methods.