Computerized intracranial tumor detection using morphological operations on MRI
European Biotechnology Conference, Letonya, 5 - 07 Mayıs 2016, cilt.231, (Özet Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
- Cilt numarası: 231
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2016.05.300
- Basıldığı Ülke: Letonya
- Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Magnetic
Resonance (MR) is an important imaging instrument for intracranial tumor
treatment because it provides ability to visualize brain tumors. It ensures to
detect the location of a tumor and quantify its volume, thus aids the planning
of a treatment. Tumor detection is often performed by a radiologist and tumor
volume calculation is often done manually and may not be precise enough for
surgical operations. It should be noted that because of varying signal
intensities on different type of MR images, tumor detection by naked eye might
be challenging.
This
study presents an automatic method for brain tumor segmentation on MR images
using morphological operations on MATLAB platform. We developed a script that
is capable of automatically detecting and segmenting tumor masses and
calculating their areas using morphological operations and enables
visualization of tumor volume by coloring it.
In
this study, T2-weighted MR images of two patients diagnosed with intracranial
lesions were examined. The developed script was able to successfully detect the
tumors and estimate their areas. The process and results will be discussed in
poster presentation.