An Automated Skull-Stripping Method by Windowing the Histogram

Authors

  • S Sarkar Department of Computer Science & Application, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, India
  • A Mandal Department of Computer Science & Application, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, India
  • K Sarkar Ananda Chandra College, Department of Computer Science, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, India

Keywords:

MRI, Skull-Stripping, ROI, T1-Weighted, Windowing

Abstract

An automated method for segmentation of Magnetic Resonance (MR) head images into brain and non-brain has been proposed. It combines the strategy used in intensity and morphological skull-stripping methods. The method is very fast and requires no preprocessing of MR images. It is testified on T1-Weighted MR image modality and produces accurate output.

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Published

2025-11-11

How to Cite

[1]
S. Sarkar, A. Mandal, and K. Sarkar, “An Automated Skull-Stripping Method by Windowing the Histogram”, Int. J. Comp. Sci. Eng., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 45–49, Nov. 2025.

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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2017): IJCSE March Edition

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