Tumour Detection from medical images using Machine Learning (Group Number)

Introduction:
Tumor is one of the major threats confronted by many people around the world. As per
International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) more than one million people are
diagnosed with tumor per year around the world, with increased fatal rate. During tumor, the
occurrence of the abnormal tissues is easily detectable most of the time, still accurate
segmentation and characterization of these abnormalities are not genuine. In the present
scenario, the radiologists have to manually study the tumors with the available medical imaging
tools and generate a report. The process is time consuming. Although many progresses have
been made, but segmentation of tumors from medical images in a quick, accurate, authentic
and reproductive way is still a challenging issue.

Problem Statement:
The aim of this project is
1)To design a system to detect the abnormal growth of tissue using Image Processing
Technique.
2)The system will also classify whether the tumour is cancerous(malignant) or non-
cancerous(benign) using machine learning.

Proposed solution:
To overcome the problem of manual tumour detection ,we are building a system which will
detect the tumor and will classify them as benign and malignant by using image processing in
integration with machine learning.This will help to detect the tumor and classify them into benign
and malignant in quick time. In this work step by step procedure for image pre-processing,
segmenting brain tumor using morphological operations, extracting tumor features and
classification of the tumor using machine learning algorithm is accomplished with the given data.

Methodology :

Block diagram :
Image Pre-processing- Pre-Processing involves processes like conversion of normal image to
grayscale image, removal of noise and reconstruction of an image. Conversion of an image to
grayscale image is the most common pre-processing practice method. After the image is
converted to grayscale, it removes excess noise from an image using different filtering methods.
Image Segmentation - It is the procedure of distributing an image into smaller portions. It
creates several sets of pixels in the same image and assigns a tag to every pixel in an image
and the pixels with the similar kind of label share particular features .Segmenting makes it
easier to further analyze and recognize important information form a digital image.
Feature Extraction and classification -Accurate extraction of tumor is a very critical task in the
case of brain tumor due to the very complex structure of the brain. There are various criteria that
needs to be considered to extract features such as configuration, form (shape), size and image
location. With respect to the results obtained from extract features the process of tumor
classification is done using machine learning algorithms.

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