TY - JFULL AU - Jagadish H. Pujar and Pallavi S. Gurjal and Shambhavi D. S and Kiran S. Kunnur PY - 2010/9/ TI - Medical Image Segmentation Based On Vigorous Smoothing and Edge Detection Ideology T2 - International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering SP - 1142 EP - 1149 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14997 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 44, 2010 N2 - Medical image segmentation based on image smoothing followed by edge detection assumes a great degree of importance in the field of Image Processing. In this regard, this paper proposes a novel algorithm for medical image segmentation based on vigorous smoothening by identifying the type of noise and edge diction ideology which seems to be a boom in medical image diagnosis. The main objective of this algorithm is to consider a particular medical image as input and make the preprocessing to remove the noise content by employing suitable filter after identifying the type of noise and finally carrying out edge detection for image segmentation. The algorithm consists of three parts. First, identifying the type of noise present in the medical image as additive, multiplicative or impulsive by analysis of local histograms and denoising it by employing Median, Gaussian or Frost filter. Second, edge detection of the filtered medical image is carried out using Canny edge detection technique. And third part is about the segmentation of edge detected medical image by the method of Normalized Cut Eigen Vectors. The method is validated through experiments on real images. The proposed algorithm has been simulated on MATLAB platform. The results obtained by the simulation shows that the proposed algorithm is very effective which can deal with low quality or marginal vague images which has high spatial redundancy, low contrast and biggish noise, and has a potential of certain practical use of medical image diagnosis. ER -