Brain Tumor Detection using Image Segmentation

The brain is the most important organ in the human body, responsible for controlling and regulating all critical life functions for the body and a tumor is a mass of tissue formed by the accumulation of abnormal cells, which keep on growing. A brain tumor is a tumor which is either formed in the brain or has migrated, No primary cause has been identified for the formation of tumors in the brain till date. Though tumors in the brain are not very common (Worldwide brain tumors make up only 1.8% of total reported tumors), the mortality rate of malignant brain tumors is very high due to the fact that the tumor formation is in the most critical organ of the body. Hence, it is of utmost importance to accurately detect brain tumors at early stages to lower the mortality rate.