Research Article

Detection and Localization of Early-Stage Multiple Brain Tumors Using a Hybrid Technique of Patch-Based Processing, k-means Clustering and Object Counting

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Morphological operations on MRI image and detection of tumors, (a) The largest surrounding edge expanded inward, (b) the largest remaining connected component, (c) The modified MRI image, (d) splitting the MRI image into 200 × 200 patches, (e–g) Shifting the horizontal indices before repeating the detection process (h) The resultant detected tumors.
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