18-06-2011, 04:08 PM
Submitted by:
PC SHERJEEL BIN AAMIR
NS NADEEM KHAN
NS TAUQEER ANJUM SATTI
NS KAMRAN SHAFQAT
NS KHAWAR ALI
NS MEHTAB AHMED
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INTRODUCTION:
The purpose of our project is to identify a tumor from a given MRI scan of a brain using digital image processing techniques.
ABSTRACT:
The part of the image that has the tumor has more intensity in that portion and we can make our assumptions about the radius of the tumor in the image,these are the basic things considered in the algorithm.First of all some image enhancement and noise reduction techniques are used to enhance the image quality,after that some morphological operations are applied to detect the tumor in the image.The morphological operations are basically applied on some assumptions about the size and shape of the tumor and in the end the tumor is mapped onto the original gray scale image with 255 intensity to make visible the tumor in the image.The algorithm has been tried on a number of different images from different angles and has always given the correct desired result.
TUMOR:
A tumor or tumor is the name for a neoplasm or a solid lesion formed by an abnormal growth of cells (termed neoplastic) which looks like a swelling.Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. A tumor can be benign, pre-malignant or malignant, whereas cancer is by definition malignant.
TYPES OF TUMOR:
BENIGN TUMOR :
A benign tumor is a tumor that lacks all three of the malignant properties of a cancer. Thus, by definition, a benign tumor does not grow in an unlimited, aggressive manner, does not invade surrounding tissues, and does not spread to non-adjacent tissues (metastasize). Common examples of benign tumors include moles and uterine fibroids.
MALIGNANT :
Malignancy (from the Latin roots mal- = "bad" and -ignis = "fire") is the tendency of a medical condition, especially tumors, to become progressively worse and to potentially result in death. It is characterized by the properties of anaplasia, invasiveness, and metastasis. Malignant is a corresponding adjectival medical term used to describe a severe and progressively worsening disease. The term is most familiar as a description of cancer.
PREMALIGNANT :
A precancerous condition (or premalignant condition) is a disease, syndrome, or finding that, if left untreated, may lead to cancer. It is a generalized state associated with a significantly increased risk of cancer.
MRI:
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), is primarily a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structure and limited function of the body. MRI provides much greater contrast between the different soft tissues of the body than computed tomography (CT) does, making it especially useful in neurological (brain), musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and oncological (cancer) imaging. Unlike CT, MRI uses no ionizing radiation. Rather, it uses a powerful magnetic field to align the nuclear magnetization of (usually) hydrogen atoms in water in the body. Radio frequency (RF) fields are used to systematically alter the alignment of this magnetization. This causes the hydrogen nuclei to produce a rotating magnetic field detectable by the scanner. This signal can be manipulated by additional magnetic fields to build up enough information to construct an image of the body.
METHODOLOGY:
The part of the image containing the tumor normally has more intensity then the other portion and we can assume the area, shape and radius of the tumor in the image. We have used these basic conditions to detect tumor in our code and the code goes through th following steps: