SVM Kernels comparison for brain tumor diagnosis using MRI

Wedad Abdul Khuder  Naser *, Eman Abdulmunem Kadim and Safana Hyder Abbas

Department of computer science, University Al Mustansiriyah, Baghdad, Iraq.
 
Research Article
Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances, 2021, 07(02), 026-036.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gjeta.2021.7.2.0065
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Abstract: 
Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) brain images have an essential role in medical analysis and cancer identification .In this paper multi kernel SVM algorithm is used for MRI brain tumor detection. The proposed work is involving the following stages: image acquisition, image preprocessing, feature extraction and tumor classification. An automatic threshold selection region based segmentation method called Otsu is used for thresholding during preprocessing stage. SVM classification algorithm with four different kernels are used to determine the normal and abnormal images. SVM with quadratic kernel results in best classification accuracy of 86.5%.
 
Keywords: 
Brain tumors; Support vector machine; Kernels; Image processing; Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)
 
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