Computer-aided diagnosis of human brain tumor through MRI: A survey and a new algorithm

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5526-5545

  El Dahshan, E A S ^a,b   Mohsen, Heba M ^c   Revett, Kenneth ^d,e   Salem, Abdel Badeeh M ^f  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^b National Egyptian E Learning University   (Egypt)

^c FUTURE UNIVERSITY IN EGYPT   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Helwan University   (Egypt)

^f Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature extractions; Human brain tumors; Intelligent computer aided diagnosis systems; Magnetic resonance images; Medical imaging; Medical informatics; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; FEED-FORWARD BACK-PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; HUMAN BRAIN TUMORS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84899008824     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.01.021     Document Type: Article

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