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A method is described for the detection and localisation of benign tumours from head MR images. Detection is carried out at the pixel level using a neural network based approach. The results of this are fused with regions, formed by a robust edge-region segmentation, to enable identification of regions corresponding to part of a tumour. The method described achieves a high sensitivity and specificity, and all tumours in the example set are detected.
Inspec keywords: image texture; biomedical NMR; computer vision; multilayer perceptrons; image segmentation; image classification; edge detection
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Subjects: Medical magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; Neural computing techniques; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Optical information, image and video signal processing; Radiation and radioactivity applications in biomedicine; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Biology and medical computing