%0 Journal Article %T A Comparative Study of Segmentation Methods for Brain tumor Detection %A Smita Haribhau Zol %J Indian Streams Research Journal %D 2012 %I Laxmi Book Publication %X This paper introduces a comparative study of three methods of automated medical image segmentation which can be used to locate volumetric objects such asbrain tumor in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images and they are - Automated Medical Image Segmentation Using a New Deformable Surface Model, Brain Tumor Detection Using Segmentation Based on Neuro Fuzzy Technique, An Image Segmentation Method Based on a Discrete Version of the Topological Derivative. %K MRI %K medical image segmentation %K Deformable Surface Model %K Neuro Fuzzy Technique %K Topological Derivative %U http://www.isrj.net/PublishArticles/457.pdf