Medical professionals need help finding tumours in the ground truth image of the brain because the tumours’ location, contrast, intensity, size, and shape vary between images because of different acquisition methods, modalities, and the patient’s age. The medical examiner has difficulty manually separating a tumour from other parts of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) image. Many semi- and fully automated brain tumour detection systems have been written about in the literature, and they keep improving. The segmentation literature has seen several transformations throughout the years. An in-depth examination of these methods will be the focus of this investigation. We look at the most recent soft computing technologies used in MRI brain analysis through several review papers. This study looks at Self-Organising maps (SOM) with K-means and the kernel Fuzzy c-means (KFCM) method for segmenting them. The suggested SOM networks were first compared to K-means analysis in an experiment based on datasets with well-known cluster solutions. Later, the SOM is combined with KFCM, reducing time complexity and producing more accurate results than other methods. Experiments show that skewed data improves networks’ performance with more SOMs. Finally, performance measures in real-time datasets are analysed using machine learning approaches. The results show that the proposed algorithm has good sensitivity and better accuracy than k-means and other state-of-art methods.

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