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ArticleInternational journal of biomedical imaging2020

Detection and Localization of Early-Stage Multiple Brain Tumors Using a Hybrid Technique of Patch-Based Processing, k-means Clustering and Object Counting.

Mohamed Nasor, Walid Obaid

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Article in International journal of biomedical imaging, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Mohamed NasorDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4833-4363
Walid ObaidDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3604-0907

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Brain tumors are a major health problem that affect the lives of many people. These tumors are classified as benign or cancerous. The latter can be fatal if not properly diagnosed and treated. Therefore, the diagnosis of brain tumors at the early stages of their development can significantly improve the chances of patient's full recovery after treatment. In addition to laboratory analyses, clinicians and surgeons extract information from medical images, recorded by various systems such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, and computed tomography (CT). The extracted information is used to identify the essential characteristics of brain tumors (location, size, and type) in order to achieve an accurate diagnosis to determine the most appropriate treatment protocol. In this paper, we present an automated machine vision technique for the detection and localization of brain tumors in MRI images at their very early stages using a combination of

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