A paper on:

“Segmentation of Meningioma MR images using

SVM &

RBF Algorithms”

By

Shreyash J. Malani

and

K. Vinit Rajan

Name of Internal Guide : Prof. Mr. Alwin Anuse

Abstract:
In the age for technical advancement and modern machines there is a also a need for an
equivalent improvement or rather advancement in medical science and technology. Various imaging
methods are used for capturing and scanning different parts of the human body. Some of these methods
include X-ray, M.R.I. scanning, ultrasound, sonography . Out of these our focus is primarily on M.R.I.
scanning and the application of two A.N.N. algorithms namely the Radial basis function and the
=Support vector machine.

The paper explores the field of medical image analysis through the use of ANN
algorithms. The processing is carried out on MRI images which would be helpful in detecting
brain tumor tissues through the revelation of infected tissues in the image.

After the preprocessing of image, features are extracted from spatial domain and are
separately fed to the algorithms. This process requires calculation of co-occurrence matrices of
the template (size 3 x 3) from the image. The outputs obtained after these processes are subjected
to segmentation technique. The comparison is done by determining the sensitivity and the
specificity of the segmented image with reference to the manually segmented image.

The ANN algorithms implemented are Radial Basis Function (RBF) and Support Vector
Machine (SVM). The important step in RBF is to determine centroids and width of the clusters.
For this purpose, k-means clustering is used. The basis function used for RBF is Gaussian and
for learning backpropagation is used. In SVM, kernel function used is linear function.