Brain Tumor Detection and Tumor Area Calculation by Means of Morphological Processes and Edge Detection Methods

Nowadays, magnetic resonance imaging is one of the imaging tools commonly used in the field of medical image processing. These images can be used to diagnose many diseases. These images are used for the diagnosis of tumors especially in brain MR images. In this study, some image processing techniques were applied to MR images in order to locate and measure the size of brain tumors. First, sharpening and filtering were performed to improve image quality. Edge detection methods are used to determine the location of the tumor. Edge detection in this study is an important step for tumor detection. Then, the tumor area was obtained by morphological procedures. Thus, the location of the tumor was found and the area was calculated