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Glioma is the most common and aggressive brain tumor. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a vital role to evaluate tumors for the arrangement of tumor surgery and the treatment of subsequent procedures. However, the manual segmentation…

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The paper discusses the use of MRI for segmentation techniques, specifically focusing on brain tumor detection. It discusses the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for automatic segmentation but also discusses challenges such as…

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Cancer of the brain is deadly and requires careful surgical segmentation. The brain tumors were segmented using U-Net using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). When looking for overlaps of necrotic, edematous, growing, and healthy tissue,…

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