A Brain Tumor Segmentation Approach with Adaptive Threshold Optimization Numerical Spiking Neural P Systems

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the high-resolution in computer-aided diagnostic technology is widely used to provide doctors with diagnostic advice, especially in brain tumor segmentation. In addition, MRI multi-sequence images of brain tumors also provide better image data support for studying brain tumor segmentation. In this paper, an adaptive threshold segmentation numerical optimization spiking neural P system (ATONSNPS or ATONSN P system) is designed to dynamically adjust the threshold quantity. In addition, the ATONSN P system and connectivity algorithm are combined to finish multi-sequence brain tumor segmentation. Experimental results on BraTS2019 show that the multi-sequence brain tumor segmentation approach can achieve more effective segmentation of brain tumor images comparing with several benchmark algorithms.