A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation

Abstract The human-brain is a vital and complicated organ within the body. Identifying brain-related diseases can be challenging. Typically, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning methods are used to gain insights of the protected regions in the body. Brain segmentation can result in identifying...

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Main Authors: Saritha Saladi, Karuna Yepuganti, Ravikumar Chinthaginjala, Tae-hoon Kim, Shafiq Ahmad
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81648-9
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author Saritha Saladi
Karuna Yepuganti
Ravikumar Chinthaginjala
Tae-hoon Kim
Shafiq Ahmad
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description Abstract The human-brain is a vital and complicated organ within the body. Identifying brain-related diseases can be challenging. Typically, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning methods are used to gain insights of the protected regions in the body. Brain segmentation can result in identifying region boundaries as a set of contours. However, segmenting brain images poses several challenges, including noise, bias field, and partial volume effect (PVE). Removing noise, accurately segmenting tissues and tumors are crucial for effective evaluation. To enhance tissue and tumor segmentation, a new machine learning-based method called as Gaussian-Kernelized Enhanced Intuitionistic Fuzzy-C-Means (GKEIFCM) has been proposed. Approach enhances Improved Intuitionistic Fuzzy-C-Means Algorithm (IIFCM) by utilizing Gaussian kernelized distance between pixels, resulting in uncomplicated segmentation with reduced computational times and improved efficiency. This proposed novel method proved to be expertise in tissue and tumor classification and identification respectively. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of GKEIFCM interms of Dice, Jaccard-similarity-index, Accuracy and Execution time.
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spelling doaj-art-30d201da1a744b80bccbcec274faa18f2024-12-01T12:20:13ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-11-0114111310.1038/s41598-024-81648-9A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentationSaritha Saladi0Karuna Yepuganti1Ravikumar Chinthaginjala2Tae-hoon Kim3Shafiq Ahmad4School of Electronics Engineering, VIT-AP UniversitySchool of Electronics Engineering, VIT-AP UniversitySchool of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of TechnologySchool of Information and Electronic Engineering and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Biomedical Intelligent Computing Technology, Zhejiang University of Science and TechnologyIndustrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud UniversityAbstract The human-brain is a vital and complicated organ within the body. Identifying brain-related diseases can be challenging. Typically, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning methods are used to gain insights of the protected regions in the body. Brain segmentation can result in identifying region boundaries as a set of contours. However, segmenting brain images poses several challenges, including noise, bias field, and partial volume effect (PVE). Removing noise, accurately segmenting tissues and tumors are crucial for effective evaluation. To enhance tissue and tumor segmentation, a new machine learning-based method called as Gaussian-Kernelized Enhanced Intuitionistic Fuzzy-C-Means (GKEIFCM) has been proposed. Approach enhances Improved Intuitionistic Fuzzy-C-Means Algorithm (IIFCM) by utilizing Gaussian kernelized distance between pixels, resulting in uncomplicated segmentation with reduced computational times and improved efficiency. This proposed novel method proved to be expertise in tissue and tumor classification and identification respectively. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of GKEIFCM interms of Dice, Jaccard-similarity-index, Accuracy and Execution time.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81648-9MRIBrain segmentationTissue classificationTumor identificationMachine learningIntuitionistic –FCM
spellingShingle Saritha Saladi
Karuna Yepuganti
Ravikumar Chinthaginjala
Tae-hoon Kim
Shafiq Ahmad
A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation
Scientific Reports
MRI
Brain segmentation
Tissue classification
Tumor identification
Machine learning
Intuitionistic –FCM
title A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation
title_full A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation
title_fullStr A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation
title_full_unstemmed A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation
title_short A unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy C-means for MR brain tissue segmentation
title_sort unique unsupervised enhanced intuitionistic fuzzy c means for mr brain tissue segmentation
topic MRI
Brain segmentation
Tissue classification
Tumor identification
Machine learning
Intuitionistic –FCM
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81648-9
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