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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110372
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Histogram Equalization based Enhancement and MR Brain Image Skull Stripping using Mathematical Morphology

Author 1: Zahid Ullah
Author 2: Su-Hyun Lee
Author 3: Donghyeok An

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 3, 2020.

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Abstract: In brain image processing applications the skull stripping is an essential part to explore. In numerous medical image applications the skull stripping stage act as a pre-processing step as due to this stage the accuracy of diagnosis increases in the manifold. The MR image skull stripping stage removes the non-brain tissues from the brain part such as dura, skull, and scalp. Nowadays MRI is an emerging method for brain imaging. However, the existence of the skull region in the MR brain image and the low contrast are the two main drawbacks of magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, we have proposed a method for contrast enhancement of brain MRI using histogram equalization techniques. While morphological image processing technique is used for skull stripping from MR brain image. We have implemented our proposed methodology in the MATLAB R2015a platform. Peak signal to noise ratio, Signal to noise ratio, Mean absolute error, Root mean square error has been used to evaluate the results of our presented method. The experimental results illustrate that our proposed method effectively enhance the image and remove the skull from the brain MRI.

Keywords: Contrast enhancement; skull stripping; magnetic resonance imaging; mathematical morphology

Zahid Ullah, Su-Hyun Lee and Donghyeok An, “Histogram Equalization based Enhancement and MR Brain Image Skull Stripping using Mathematical Morphology” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(3), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110372

@article{Ullah2020,
title = {Histogram Equalization based Enhancement and MR Brain Image Skull Stripping using Mathematical Morphology},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110372},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110372},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {3},
author = {Zahid Ullah and Su-Hyun Lee and Donghyeok An}
}



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