This document presents a method for segmenting and classifying brain tumors in MR images using image processing techniques. It involves pre-processing images using adaptive histogram equalization, extracting features using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and principal component analysis (PCA) for dimension reduction. Texture and statistical features are then extracted and classifiers like support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbors (KNN) and neural networks are used to classify tumors as benign, malignant or pituitary. The method is evaluated on a brain tumor dataset containing MR images of different tumor types and shows promise for automatic brain tumor segmentation and classification.