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. 2021 Sep 6;7(9):179. doi: 10.3390/jimaging7090179
Algorithm 1 Paper search strategy from different search databases.
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    procedureTopic(Application of Machine Learning and Region Growing Techniques in Brain Tumor Segmentation and Classification)

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         SearchDatabases ←IEEEX plore, GoogleScholar, ScienceDirect, PubMed, MDPI

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        SearchYear←2015−2021 AND Few papers from older years asexceptional to enrich Section 1

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         i← 1                                                 ▹ Initialize counter

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         N← 5                                        ▹ N is the number of search databases

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        for i ≤ N do

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             Keyword ← braintumor, deeplearning, machinelearning, regiongrowing, segmentation, classi fication

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            if  SearchLink ∈SearchDatabases and Year ∈SearchYear then

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               Search (Brain Tumor AND Region Growing AND Segmentation AND Deep Learning AND Machine Learning AND Classification)

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            end if

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        end for

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        if NumberofPapers ≥ 0 then

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            Refine Papers

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            ApplyInclusionCriteria← IC1, IC2, IC3

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            ApplyExclusionCriteria← EC1, EC2, EC3

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        end if

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    end procedure