Research Article

Brain Tumor Segmentation Based on Hybrid Clustering and Morphological Operations

Table 3

Comparison of four clustering algorithms and the proposed algorithm.

Clustering methodsEvaluationsPatient 1Patient 2Patient 3

K-meansDice0.90010.93160.8298
Sensitivity0.96300.90640.9424
Specificity0.99520.99840.9780
Recall0.84490.95830.7412

FCMDice0.91370.93410.9004
Sensitivity0.92630.89050.9336
Specificity0.99710.99940.9880
Recall0.90150.98230.8694

sFCMDice0.81690.92580.9144
Sensitivity0.71120.86450.9290
Specificity0.99680.99940.9878
Recall0.95970.99650.9002

csFCMDice0.80690.91790.9166
Sensitivity0.69600.85400.9290
Specificity0.99710.99960.9880
Recall0.95970.99220.9045

ProposedDice0.92610.94000.8978
Sensitivity0.96220.91840.9380
Specificity0.99710.99960.9881
Recall0.89260.96250.8608