Automatic brain tumor detection using adaptive region growing with thresholding methods

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Automatic brain tumor detection using adaptive region growing
with thresholding methods
Kadry Ali Ezzat1
, Lamia Nabil Omran1
, Ahmed Adel Ismail2
, Ahmed I. B. ElSeddawy3
1
Biomedical Engineering Department, Higher Technological Institute, 10th of Ramadan City, Egypt
2
The Higher Institute of Computer and Information Systems, Abo Qir, Alexandria, 21913, Egypt
3
Computer Science and Information System, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Giza, Egypt
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Sep 13, 2022
Revised Jan 5, 2023
Accepted Mar 10, 2023
Brain cancer affects many people around the world. It's not just limited to the
elderly; it is also recognized in children. With the development of image
processing, early detection of mental development is possible. Some designers
suggest deformable models, histogram averaging, or manual division. Due to
constant manual intervention, these cycles can be uncomfortable and tiring.
This research introduces a high-level system for the removal of malignant
tumors from attractive reverberation images, based on a programmed and
rapid distribution strategy for surface extraction and recreation for clinicians.
To test the proposed system, acquired tomography images from the Cancer
Imaging Archive were used. The results of the study strongly demonstrate that
the intended structure is viable in brain tumor detection.
Keywords:
Brain
Segmentation
Thresholding
Tumor
Visualization This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Kadry Ali Ezzat
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Higher Technological Institute,10th of RamadanCity
Next to Small Industries Complex, Industrial Area, 10th of Ramadan City, Ash Sharqia Governorate
Email: kadry_ezat@hotmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
The human intellect is an amazingly complicated organ with an especially tall dealing with constrain
unrivaled by any PC system: it can get and prepare at the same time extraordinary numerous unmistakable and
mental commitments through locate, scent, contact, taste, and hearing on the millisecond scale, store
information within the cerebrum and control our consideration, advancements, exercises, and talk. The
cerebrum gets information through our five recognizes: locate, scent, contact, taste, and hearing [1]. Cerebrum
cancer is an sickness of the cells, which are the body's basic structure squares. The body persistently makes
modern cells to help us with creating, supplant broken down tissue and repair wounds. Regularly, cells copy
and pass on in an exact way [2]. In a few cases cells do not create, partition and kick the bucket within the
standard manner. This might make blood or lymph fluid within the body gotten to be abnormal, or structure a
bulge called a development. A development can be safe or unsafe. The review portrays the rate at which cancers
create and the likeliness or capacity to spread into adjoining tissue [3]. Most central tactile system growths do
not spread within the body. In any case, your clinical bunch might got to do distinctive tests tocheck expecting
the infection has spread (for case computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
channels, or truly taking a see at the cerebrospinal fluid) [4].
Abdullah and Wagiallah [5], this was a pilot study focusing on brain division in MRI images using
edge localization and morphological channels. For brain MRI images, each film was examined with a digitizer
and then processed with an image processing program (MATLAB) taking into account the division. Brain
tissue is clearly visible on the MRI image provided the object is sufficiently distinct from the background. We

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use basic edge detection and morphology tools to detect ghosting. Splitting MRI images using the detection
and morphology channels involved looking through the image, locating the whole brain, magnifying the image,
filling in the holes in the image, d Eject the associated objects on the edges and smooth the object (brain).
The side effect of this study was that it showed an overriding strategy for visualizing the shared item
by overlaying a diagram around the shared brain. These channel approaches can help suppress unwanted
background data and increase symptomatic brain MRI data. As a general rule manufacturer cannot present
Fourier studies in which their properties and uses are concentrated on a large scale. Sandhya et al. [6], An MRI
brain image subdivision strategy for multi-target edge detection, district selection and programmed power
threshold techniques. Multi-target MRI results of mental imaging and brain tissue distribution are provided.
The identification of multi-target edges depends on the multi-scale separation strategy.
The programmed force threshold technique is based on a tailored strategy for defining limits. The
method is expected to increase the accuracy of stress and brain tissue measurements. In this article, five
strategies were performed to divide images in contrast to part of the growth of the MR image dataset [7].
Factual and visual research shows that the cultivated neighborhood development technique is considered the
best of all research strategies. This technique has established itself in the light of the idea of clinical images
and a precise distribution of those areas with similar properties. Tumors are removed from images in a semi-
natural way in the wake of the performance limit. Kamnitsas et al. [8] used the cultivated neighborhood
development method to get all the pixels in one place with few locations and the district boundaries found by
the area development are very graceful and associated. However, this cycle cancer has been removed in the 2D
aspect image, so to speak. Muthukrishnan and Radha [9] brain cancer localization proposal where segmentation
isolates an image into its sub-regions or sections. In this system, edge detection was an important technique for
cropping images. In this thesis, his work focused on presenting the most elaborate edge detection methods for
image splitting and also completed the correlation of these methods with a survey. Saritha et al. [10] proposed
approach incorporating cobweb plots based on wavelet entropy and probabilistic brain network for brain MRI
clustering. The proposed strategy includes two characterization steps, for example, wavelet entropy-based web
plot for highlight retraction and probabilistic brain network for control. Ghost MRI was acquired, feature
extraction was completed by wavelet change and its entropy value was determined, and web plot area
estimation was completed.
Nanthagopal and Sukanesh [11] have introduced in their paper a mix of effective wavelet elements
(WST) and co-event wavelet surface components (WCT) obtained from two layers. A specific wavelet change
was used for the association of an unusual spirit in harmless and threatening matters. The established
framework included four phases: division of the area of interest, dissection of individual waves, deliberation
of cornerstones, determination, mapping, and evaluation. The Aid vector machine was used for the distribution
of brain tumors. A collection of WST and WCT was used, among other things, for the extraction of the
cancerous area eliminated by the modification in discrete wavelets at two levels. The probabilistic brain
network was used to classify unusual brain tissue into harmless and threatening, and the presentation
assessment was completed by comparing the classification side effect of probabilistic neural network (PNN)
and other brain network classifiers. The control accuracy of the offered frame is 97.5%.
Laxmi and Samata [12] proposed to work on the data (areas of interest) in the clinical image and thus
have immeasurably refined the speed of calculation of the results of the growth division. A critical elements-
based approach has been proposed for the subdivision of essential brain tumors. Critical sections of T1-
weighted brain MRI images with enhanced contrast were dissected. To separate the foci of the critical elements
in the image, a component point extraction calculation was applied in terms of a combination of edge maps
using morphological and wavelet techniques. The evaluation of the foci of the elements obtained subsequently
was completed for the mathematical modifications and the resizing of the image. Next, an acreage development
calculation was used to separate the growth quarter. The baseline results show that our methodology produced
excellent divisional results. This procedure was also highly apprehended. Future work includes studying the
strategy used in programmed 3D cancer splicing, region of interest (ROI) splicing in other conditions, and the
suitability of the method exploited in disease recovery applications. Writing has been significantly expanded
to address intellect growth discovery using MRI control images, increasing the need to examine and summarize
the systems used, related data sets, and execution performed. Work in this space uses brain cancer recognition
using artificial intellect procedures. Artificial intelligence models require information highlighting to grow
familiar with the cancer identification framework. Therefore, the most common procedure in written highlight
extraction exams is the dark level co-event network (GLCM) [13], [14]. Artificial intelligence methods based
mainly on artificial thinking are mainly applied to extrapolated maxima; Some exist support vector machine
(SVM) [15]–[17], AdBoost [18], [19], Neural System [20], k-nearest neighbors (KNN) Classifier [21], Naive
Bayes [22], Fuzzy C Means [23], morphological reconstruction of the mathematician [24].

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2. METHODS
The primary reason in favor of this article is to recognize the growth area and specifically determine
which growth will be used inside the treatment of the patient with the disease. The limit is a custom format that
contains a predefined format; It is used to isolate the quality or area of interest (ROI) from the representation
mean. The proposed framework begins with opening a digital imaging and communications in medicine
(DICOM) file, which distinguishes the region of interest (ROI) from the intended part where the altitude cycle
was applied (for example, the region should contain the brain and local cancer), and thus a multifaceted
boundary strategy and a modified variant of the local development method for distributing growth. Finally,
painting recognizes and models cancer of the brain and records its volume. Essentially, the framework consists
of three phases, and these phases are detailed in the appropriate segment, along with the resources involved
and the characteristics highlighted for each phase. The general technique of the proposed framework is shown
in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Building block drawing for suggested method
2.1. Region of interest (ROI) preprocessing
Before applying the segmentation process [25], [26], it is necessary to define the first image handling
step used to detect the region of interest (ROI) of the Figure 2. ROI is used to define the expected range. For
example, the brain and skull are cut and grown in a short time and the removal of certain tissues, organs, or
bones reduces cutting errors and increases the possibility of recognizing suspicious areas. The best image
details are enhanced and image noise is removed. Clinical MRI reduces the resolution of the image when it is
contaminated with noise. Several channels are used to eliminate this excitement. A normal conduit was used
to eliminate ground movement, and a weighted center conduit was used to eliminate the salt and pepper noise.
Figure 2. Region of interest in brain tumor

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2.2. Separation methods
Image segmentation is the method of dividing mental image into little parts. Segmentation is
performed to facilitate analysis. There are the following types of image segmentation [14].
2.2.1. Thresholding
It is the most commonly used splitting strategy. It's the dark-valve remapping technique, which doesn't
see the pixel as activity. With the threshold strategy, the dark image is completely switched to a parallel image.
After thresholding, the image has split into two qualities, 0 and 1, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Thresholding of brain pixels
2.2.2. Edge approach
In the Figure 4 edge-based splitting strategy, distinct boundaries in an impression are accepted to
address the limitations of objects and used to recognize these items. Edge-based splitting seldom provides
conclusively the undeniable, closed limits needed for instant splitting. Edge recognition is more likely to be
misleading and in a large number of cases edges need to be glued to join incomplete edges into an article
boundary.
Figure 4. Edge detection for brain
2.2.3. Region growing approach
In Figure 5, the region composition methodology depends on the assumption that adjacent pixels
within a locale have comparable qualities. It focuses on detecting the location of the object, not its edges. It
matches a pixel and its neighbors, if the coincidence rules are satisfied, the pixel can be defined to have a place
in the group as at least one of its neighbors.

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Figure 5. Region growing technique for brain
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The findings were concluded on a Core i7 laptop computer with 8GB of RAM and AMD Radeon
graphics. I have implemented all graphics and visualization functions using the visualization toolkit (VTK
version 8 functions) and C # software. The DICOM tab was unlock with VTK in 3 views (axial view as showen
in Figure 6(a), anterior view as showen in Figure 6(b), sagittal view as showen in Figure 6(c)) in 10 cases, as
displayed in Figure 6. Brain tumor-specific ROI results were obtained for the cases. This state was the gateway
to other phases of the system. The results of the adaptive threshold method were applied with high precision to
segment all the pixels of the tumor. True threshold calculations then allow for highly accurate brain
segmentation as well as accurate calculations of brain tumors. As shown in Figure 7, the result of applying a
brain segmentation threshold.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 6. DICOM datasets (a) Axial view (b) Sagittal view (c) Frontal view
Figure 7. Brain segmented from the skull

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In Figure 8, the result showing 3D reconstruction after skull removing. While the tumor was
segmented from the brain by applying region of interest and region growing technique displayed in Figure 9.
After segmentation tumor from brain the 3D reconstruction of the tumor was applied as indicated in Figure 10.
Figure 8. The 3D brain reconstruction Figure 9. The brain tumor segmentation
Figure 10. The 3D brain tumor construction
4. CONCLUSION
Recognition of brain development is completed by this initial midline pre-processing stage and, using
oblique and anti-angle occlusion, the sliced likeness is rerun and the skull occlusion is finished here. Afterwards
covering the skull, fatty flesh and other unwanted details are levelled out. Images preprocess using local
developing services are hashed and the hindrances match the extraction of the elements. Image processing is
big business these days. Today, image treatment can be used in many fields such as clinical, remote sensing
and measurement. Focusing on clinical applications, assume that image segmentation is often used for
inference purposes. This paper proposed a framework that can be used to segment MRI images to detect and
characterize evidence of brain development. We follow the cancer area and how it grows. Growing up, took a
three-layered image of the brain. So, you can also see the size of the growth. For future work, you can assess
the type of growth and stage of the cancer.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Kadry Ali Ezzat He received B.SC degree in biomedical engineering from the
higher technological institute, Cairo, Egypt in 2004 and the M.Sc. and PhD degree in
biomedical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2011 and 2017 respectively. In 2004
he joined the biomedical engineering department in the higher technological institute as
researcher assistant then he promoted as assistant Lecturer in 2011 and then he promoted to be
Lecturer in 2017. His current research interests are: diagnostic imaging, Robotics, Satellite
Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Image processing, Expert Systems, Biomechanics,
Data Transmission, Data Structures, Biomedical instrumentation and electronics, Pattern
recognition, Microcontrollers, Modeling and simulation. He is now Lecturer in Biomedical
Engineering Department at Higher Technological Institute in 10th
of Ramadan city since 2017,
He can be contacted at email: kadry_ezat@hotmail.com.

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Lamia Nabil Mahdy Omran She received B.SC degree in biomedical
engineering from Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt in 2004 and the M.Sc. and PhD degree in
biomedical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2009 and 2016 respectively. In 2004
she joined the biomedical engineering department in the higher technological institute as
researcher assistant then she promoted as assistant Lecturer in 2009 and then she promoted to
be Lecturer in 2016. Her current research interests are: diagnostic imaging, Robotics, Hospital
design, Artificial Intelligence, reproductive surgery, Image processing, Expert Systems,
Biomechanics, Computer programming, Data Transmission, Data Structures, Biomedical
instrumentation and electronics, Pattern recognition, Microcontrollers, Modeling and
simulation, Internet of Things (IoT). She is now Lecturer (PhD) in Biomedical Engineering
Department at Higher Technological Institute in 10th of Ramadan city since 2016. She can be
contacted at email: englamia_82@yahoo.com.
Ahmed Adel Mohammed Ismail Lecturer of Information Technology, Higher
Institute for Computer & Information Technology, Ministry of Higher Education, Alexandria,
Egypt.PhD, Scientific field: Information Technology (IT), Helwan University “Faculty of
Computers and Information”, Egypt. M.Sc. Scientific field: Information Technology (IT),
Alexandria University, "Institute of Graduate Studies and Research", Egypt. Post Graduate
Diploma, Information Technology (IT), Alexandria University, "Institute of Graduate Studies
and Research", Egypt. B.Sc., Scientific field: Management Information System (MIS), College
of Business Administration, Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime
Transport, Egypt. He can be contacted at email: gisapp13@gmail.com.
Ahmed Ibrahim Bahgat El Seddawy He is Associated Professor, Vice Dean of
Educational Affairs, and Head of Business Information System Department. He received his
bachelor from Business Administration, MIS department and M.Sc. degree in college of
Computer Science and Information Systems, I.S Department 2008 from, both from AASTMT.
Cairo, Egypt. On December 2014, he received his doctoral degree from the Department of
Information Systems, College of Computer Science, and Information Systems, I.S department,
Helwan University. Working as visitor professor in Ludwigsburg university in Germany and
Proto University Italy. He has authored/co-authored several research publications in Selected
fields such as, Knowledge Discovery, Data Science, Data Analytics Decision Support Systems,
Knowledge Base Systems, Project Management, and Leadership Management using ERP. He
can be contacted at email: ahmed.bahgat@aast.edu.

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