Towards Better Segmentation of Abnormal Part in Multimodal Images Using Kernel Possibilistic C Means Particle Swarm Optimization With Morphological Reconstruction Filters: Combination of KFCM and PSO With Morphological Filters

Abstract

The authors designed an automated framework to segment tumors with various image sequences like T1, T2, and post-processed MRI multimodal images. Contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization method is used for preprocessing images to enhance the intensity level and view the tumor part clearly. With the combination of kernel possibilistic c means clustering with particle swarm optimization technique, a tumor part is segmented, and morphological filters are applied to remove the unrelated outlier pixels in the segmented image to detect the accurate tumor part. The authors collected various image sequences from online resources like Harvard brain dataset, BRATS, and RIDER, and a few from clinical datasets. Efficiency is ensured by computing various performance metrics like Jaccard Index MSE, PSNR, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and computational time. The proposed approach yields 97.06% segmentation accuracy and 98.08% classification accuracy for multimodal images with an average of 5s for all multimodal images.