EDGE DETECTION OF MRI IMAGES –A REVIEW

Madhurima Banerjee and Prof. Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay*

ABSTRACT

MRI, CT Scan, XRay are various methods of analyzing the area of brain. MRI images of brain can be used to gather information about the brain that helps to find anomalies in the brain, thus it shows whether the person is suffering from some disease of the brain or not. There are several categories of brain ailments. One of them is tumor development in the brain. Edge detection technique can be a useful way of finding presence of tumor in the brain. Edge detection of the image segments the brain into several parts, yet there are challenges in the method since, intensity of healthy tissue, tumor and surrounding fluids overlap.

Keywords: Edge detection, Noise filters and Types of Edges.