Detection and Classification of Brain Tumors by Analyzing Images from MRI Using the Support Vector Machines (SVM) Algorithm

Abstract

Secondary brain tumors are actually caused by cancer in other parts of the body and are completely different from primary brain tumors. The concept of spreading cancer cells in the body is called metastasis. When cancer cells move to the brain tissue from other parts of the body and spread there, the cancer is called with the same name from that organ of the body. For example, if one person is diagnosed with lung cancer and these cancer cells spread throughout the brain, the brain cancer is called metastatic lung cancer. This is because the cancer cells in the brain resemble the ones in the lung. There are different kinds of treatments for secondary brain tumors which depend on the factors below [2-4]: