Publication detail

Automatic Detection of Brain Tumors in MR Images

DVOŘÁK, P. KROPATSCH, W. BARTUŠEK, K.

Original Title

Automatic Detection of Brain Tumors in MR Images

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper deals with automatic brain tumor detection in magnetic resonance images. The goal is to determine whether the MR image of a brain contains a tumor. The proposed method works with T2-weighted magnetic resonance images, where the head is vertically aligned. The detection is based on checking the left-right symmetry of the brain, which is the assumption for healthy brain. The algorithm was tested by fivefold cross-validation technique on 72 images of brain containing tumors and 131 images of healthy brain. The proposed method reaches the true positive rate of 91.16% and the true negative rate of 94.68%.

Keywords

Brain symmetry, brain tumor, magnetic resonance, tumor detection.

Authors

DVOŘÁK, P.; KROPATSCH, W.; BARTUŠEK, K.

RIV year

2013

Released

4. 7. 2013

Location

Řím

ISBN

978-1-4799-0403-7

Book

2013 36th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (id 21150)

Pages from

577

Pages to

580

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT100457,
  author="Pavel {Dvořák} and Walter G. {Kropatsch} and Karel {Bartušek}",
  title="Automatic Detection of Brain Tumors in MR Images",
  booktitle="2013 36th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (id 21150)",
  year="2013",
  pages="577--580",
  address="Řím",
  isbn="978-1-4799-0403-7"
}