A Modified Genetic Algorithm Based FCM Clustering Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation

In this article, we have devised modified genetic algorithm (MfGA) based fuzzy C-means algorithm, which segment magnetic resonance (MR) images. In FCM, local minimum point can be easily derived for not selecting the centroids correctly. The proposed MfGA improves the population initialization and crossover parts of GA and generate the optimized class levels of the multilevel MR images. After that, the derived optimized class levels are applied as the initial input in FCM. An extensive performance comparison of the proposed method with the conventional FCM on two MR images establishes the superiority of the proposed approach.

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