Optimized Clustering Method for CT Brain Image Segmentation

Though image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis; it plays a vital role in the area of image processing. Its value increases in case of medical diagnostics through medical images like X-ray, PET, CT and MRI. In this paper, an attempt is taken to analyse a CT brain image. It has been segmented for a particular patch in the brain CT image that may be one of the tumours in the brain. The purpose of segmentation is to partition an image into meaningful regions with respect to a particular application. Image segmentation is a method of separating the image from the background, read the contents and isolating it. In this paper both the concept of clustering and thresholding technique with edge based segmentation methods like sobel, prewitt edge detectors is applied. Then the result is optimized using GA for efficient minimization of the objective function and for improved classification of clusters. Further the segmented result is passed through a Gaussian filter to obtain a smoothed image.

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