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Third, Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to train classification model based on the features of the second step.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>\n              <jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The experimental results on Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark 2017 (BraTS2017) show that the proposed method has good segmentation performance. The average Dice, Hausdorff distance, sensitivity, and specificity for the segmented tumor against the ground truth are 0.8492, 3.4697 pixels, 81.47, and 99.64%, respectively. The proposed method shows good stability on high- and low-grade glioma samples. Comparative experimental results show that the proposed method has superior performance.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>\n              <jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This provides a close match to expert delineation across all grades of glioma, leading to a fast and reproducible method of glioma segmentation.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12880-019-0369-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,23]],"date-time":"2019-08-23T13:02:49Z","timestamp":1566565369000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Automatic glioma segmentation based on adaptive superpixel"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Yaping","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Zhe","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Weiguo","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Yusong","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Meiyun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,23]]},"reference":[{"issue":"6","key":"369_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"803","DOI":"10.1007\/s00401-016-1545-1","volume":"131","author":"DN Louis","year":"2016","unstructured":"Louis DN, et al. 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