Automatic brain tumor detection in MRI: methodology and statistical validation

Khan M. Iftekharuddin; Mohammad A. Islam; Jahangheer Shaik; Carlos Parra; Robert Ogg

doi:10.1117/12.595931

29 April 2005 Automatic brain tumor detection in MRI: methodology and statistical validation

Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Mohammad A. Islam, Jahangheer Shaik, Carlos Parra, Robert Ogg

Proceedings Volume 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.595931
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Automated brain tumor segmentation and detection are immensely important in medical diagnostics because it provides information associated to anatomical structures as well as potential abnormal tissue necessary to delineate appropriate surgical planning. In this work, we propose a novel automated brain tumor segmentation technique based on multiresolution texture information that combines fractal Brownian motion (fBm) and wavelet multiresolution analysis. Our wavelet-fractal technique combines the excellent multiresolution localization property of wavelets to texture extraction of fractal. We prove the efficacy of our technique by successfully segmenting pediatric brain MR images (MRIs) from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We use self-organizing map (SOM) as our clustering tool wherein we exploit both pixel intensity and multiresolution texture features to obtain segmented tumor. Our test results show that our technique successfully segments abnormal brain tissues in a set of T1 images. In the next step, we design a classifier using Feed-Forward (FF) neural network to statistically validate the presence of tumor in MRI using both the multiresolution texture and the pixel intensity features. We estimate the corresponding receiver operating curve (ROC) based on the findings of true positive fractions and false positive fractions estimated from our classifier at different threshold values. An ROC, which can be considered as a gold standard to prove the competence of a classifier, is obtained to ascertain the sensitivity and specificity of our classifier. We observe that at threshold 0.4 we achieve true positive value of 1.0 (100%) sacrificing only 0.16 (16%) false positive value for the set of 50 T1 MRI analyzed in this experiment.

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Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Mohammad A. Islam, Jahangheer Shaik, Carlos Parra, and Robert Ogg "Automatic brain tumor detection in MRI: methodology and statistical validation", Proc. SPIE 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing, (29 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.595931

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