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An Enhanced Approach for MRI Brain Image Segmentation Using Fuzzy Possibilistic C-Mean Technique

M.P. IndraGandhi

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Image segmentation is frequently necessary as a beginning and indispensable level in the computer aided medical image procedure, mostly during the medical investigation of Magnetic Resonance (MR) brain images. The precise and successful algorithm for segmenting image is very valuable in numerous fields, particularly in medical image. In this work establish a novel method that focus on segmenting the brain MR Image that is significant for neural diseases. This work offers an image segmentation advance using Fuzzy Possibilistic c-means algorithm (FPCM). This technique is a generalized edition of Modified Fuzzy C Means Clustering (MFCM) algorithm. The problem of the predictable MFCM method is eliminated in modifying thestandard method. The FPCM algorithm iscreated by modifying the distance measurement of the Modified FCM algorithm to reduce the noise during segmentation.Experiments result shows that the performance of the proposed FPCM technique gives higher accuracy in segmenting the medical images.

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MRI Brain, Image Segmentation, Modified Fuzzy C-Mean (MFCM), Fuzzy Possibilistic C-Mean (FPCM).

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