MNIST and image segmentation

I’m very new to tensorflow and machine learning in general and wanted to make something that would take an image of an article of clothing and classify it and remove the background around it. I found a dataset called fashion-MNIST that looks like it might help me with classifying images.

Would it be possible to also use this dataset to get just the pixels of the clothing and remove any background around it? How would I go about doing it and are there any examples that would be helpful for me?