Morphology Based Enhancement and Skull Stripping of MRI Brain Images

Brain is an important part of human body. Many complex human body functions are controlled by brain. Brain imaging is a widely applicable method for diagnosing many brain abnormalities like brain tumor, stroke, paralysis etc. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a recently emerged method for brain imaging. Two major limitations of brain MR Images are low contrast image and presence of skull region in the image. So before detailed analysis of an image, as a preprocessing stage these two problems must be resolved. In this study we propose a method for MR Image contrast enhancement and skull stripping based on the Morphological image processing technique. The proposed method works on T1, T2 and FLAIR axial images. Experimental results show that the proposed method efficiently works for enhancing and skull removal of brain MR Images.

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