scholarly journals Deep Learning Approach for Brain Tumor Classification

Author(s):  
Saudagar Punam

Tumors are complex. There are a lot of variations in sizes and location of tumor. This makes it really hard for complete understanding of tumor. Brain tumour is the abnormal growth of cells inside the brain cranium which limits the functioning of brain. Now a days, medical images processing is a most challenging and developing field. Automated detection of tumor in MRI is extremely crucial because it provides information about abnormal tissues which is important for planning treatment. The conventional method for defect detection in resonance brain images is time consuming. So, automated tumor detection methods are developed because it would save radiologist time and acquire a tested accuracy. The MRI brain tumor detection is complicated task due to complexity and variance of tumors.There are many previously implemented approaches on detecting these kinds of brain tumors. In this paper, we used and implement Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which is one among the foremost widely used deep learning architectures for classifying a brain tumor into four types. i.e Glioma , Meningioma, Pituitary and No tumour. CNN may be used to effectively locate most cancers cells in brain via MRI. classification.

Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan Sharif ◽  
Jian Ping Li ◽  
Javeria Amin ◽  
Abida Sharif

AbstractBrain tumor is a group of anomalous cells. The brain is enclosed in a more rigid skull. The abnormal cell grows and initiates a tumor. Detection of tumor is a complicated task due to irregular tumor shape. The proposed technique contains four phases, which are lesion enhancement, feature extraction and selection for classification, localization, and segmentation. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images are noisy due to certain factors, such as image acquisition, and fluctuation in magnetic field coil. Therefore, a homomorphic wavelet filer is used for noise reduction. Later, extracted features from inceptionv3 pre-trained model and informative features are selected using a non-dominated sorted genetic algorithm (NSGA). The optimized features are forwarded for classification after which tumor slices are passed to YOLOv2-inceptionv3 model designed for the localization of tumor region such that features are extracted from depth-concatenation (mixed-4) layer of inceptionv3 model and supplied to YOLOv2. The localized images are passed toMcCulloch'sKapur entropy method to segment actual tumor region. Finally, the proposed technique is validated on three benchmark databases BRATS 2018, BRATS 2019, and BRATS 2020 for tumor detection. The proposed method achieved greater than 0.90 prediction scores in localization, segmentation and classification of brain lesions. Moreover, classification and segmentation outcomes are superior as compared to existing methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1925-1930
Author(s):  
Ambeshwar Kumar ◽  
R. Manikandan ◽  
Robbi Rahim

It’s a new era technology in the field of medical engineering giving awareness about the various healthcare features. Deep learning is a part of machine learning, it is capable of handling high dimensional data and is efficient in concentrating on the right features. Tumor is an unbelievably complex disease: a multifaceted cell has more than hundred billion cells; each cell acquires mutation exclusively. Detection of tumor particles in experiment is easily done by MRI or CT. Brain tumors can also be detected by MRI, however, deep learning techniques give a better approach to segment the brain tumor images. Deep Learning models are imprecisely encouraged by information handling and communication designs in biological nervous system. Classification plays an significant role in brain tumor detection. Neural network is creating a well-organized rule for classification. To accomplish medical image data, neural network is trained to use the Convolution algorithm. Multilayer perceptron is intended for identification of a image. In this study article, the brain images are categorized into two types: normal and abnormal. This article emphasize the importance of classification and feature selection approach for predicting the brain tumor. This classification is done by machine learning techniques like Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine and Deep Neural Network. It could be noted that more than one technique can be applied for the segmentation of tumor. The several samples of brain tumor images are classified using deep learning algorithms, convolution neural network and multi-layer perceptron.


Author(s):  
M.B. Bramarambika ◽  
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M Sesha Shayee ◽  

Brain tumor is a mass that grows unevenly in the brain and directly affects human life. The mass occurs spontaneously because of the tissues surrounding the brain or the skull. There are two types of Brain tumor such as Benign and Malignant. Malignant brain tumors contain cancer cells and grow quickly and spread through to other brain and spine regions as well. Accurate and prompt diagnosis of brain tumors is essential for implementing an effective treatment of this disease. Brain images produced by the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique are a rich source of data for brain tumor diagnosis and treatment in the medical field. Due to the existence of a large number of features compared to the other imaging types. The performance of existing methods is inadequate considering the medical significance of the classification problem. Earlier methods relied on manually delineated tumor regions, prior to classification. This prevented them from being fully automated. The automatic algorithms developed using CNN and its variants could not achieve an influential improvement in performance. In order to overcome such an issue, the proposed one is automatic brain tumor detection system, which is “ Enhanced Convolution Neural Network (CNN) Algorithm for MRI Images” for the detection of brain tumor is useful to detect and classify the Glioma part into low Glioma and high Glioma.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Erena Siyoum Biratu ◽  
Friedhelm Schwenker ◽  
Taye Girma Debelee ◽  
Samuel Rahimeto Kebede ◽  
Worku Gachena Negera ◽  
...  

A brain tumor is one of the foremost reasons for the rise in mortality among children and adults. A brain tumor is a mass of tissue that propagates out of control of the normal forces that regulate growth inside the brain. A brain tumor appears when one type of cell changes from its normal characteristics and grows and multiplies abnormally. The unusual growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, which can be cancerous or non-cancerous has been the reason for the death of adults in developed countries and children in under developing countries like Ethiopia. The studies have shown that the region growing algorithm initializes the seed point either manually or semi-manually which as a result affects the segmentation result. However, in this paper, we proposed an enhanced region-growing algorithm for the automatic seed point initialization. The proposed approach’s performance was compared with the state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms using the common dataset, BRATS2015. In the proposed approach, we applied a thresholding technique to strip the skull from each input brain image. After the skull is stripped the brain image is divided into 8 blocks. Then, for each block, we computed the mean intensities and from which the five blocks with maximum mean intensities were selected out of the eight blocks. Next, the five maximum mean intensities were used as a seed point for the region growing algorithm separately and obtained five different regions of interest (ROIs) for each skull stripped input brain image. The five ROIs generated using the proposed approach were evaluated using dice similarity score (DSS), intersection over union (IoU), and accuracy (Acc) against the ground truth (GT), and the best region of interest is selected as a final ROI. Finally, the final ROI was compared with different state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms and region-based segmentation algorithms in terms of DSS. Our proposed approach was validated in three different experimental setups. In the first experimental setup where 15 randomly selected brain images were used for testing and achieved a DSS value of 0.89. In the second and third experimental setups, the proposed approach scored a DSS value of 0.90 and 0.80 for 12 randomly selected and 800 brain images respectively. The average DSS value for the three experimental setups was 0.86.


The brain tumor detection continues to be a challenge owing to the complexity of its symptoms. The research era indicates the tumor diagnosis and identification of tumor exact indicators are still uncertain. These tumors can appear anywhere in the brain and have any kind of shape, size, and contrast. The brain tumor exploration with deep learning is a solution for flexible, high capacity and extreme efficiency. The deep learning is an application of the artificial intelligence with multiple layers helping to predict the outcome of the disease early detection. This paper presents an approach to recognize the indicators and show that deep learning drops error rate for brain tumor diagnoses by 80%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9(112)) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Wasan M. Jwaid ◽  
Zainab Shaker Matar Al-Husseini ◽  
Ahmad H. Sabry

Brain tumors are the growth of abnormal cells or a mass in a brain. Numerous kinds of brain tumors were discovered, which need accurate and early detection techniques. Currently, most diagnosis and detection methods rely on the decision of neuro-specialists and radiologists to evaluate brain images, which may be time-consuming and cause human errors. This paper proposes a robust U-Net deep learning Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model that can classify if the subject has a tumor or not based on Brain Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with acceptable accuracy for medical-grade application. The study built and trained the 3D U-Net CNN including encoding/decoding relationship architecture to perform the brain tumor segmentation because it requires fewer training images and provides more precise segmentation. The algorithm consists of three parts; the first part, the downsampling part, the bottleneck part, and the optimum part. The resultant semantic maps are inserted into the decoder fraction to obtain the full-resolution probability maps. The developed U-Net architecture has been applied on the MRI scan brain tumor segmentation dataset in MICCAI BraTS 2017. The results using Matlab-based toolbox indicate that the proposed architecture has been successfully evaluated and experienced for MRI datasets of brain tumor segmentation including 336 images as training data and 125 images for validation. This work demonstrated comparative performance and successful feasibility of implementing U-Net CNN architecture in an automated framework of brain tumor segmentations in Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MR Slices. The developed U-Net CNN model succeeded in performing the brain tumor segmentation task to classify the input brain images into a tumor or not based on the MRI dataset.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramin Ranjbarzadeh ◽  
Abbas Bagherian Kasgari ◽  
Saeid Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi ◽  
Shokofeh Anari ◽  
Maryam Naseri ◽  
...  

AbstractBrain tumor localization and segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are hard and important tasks for several applications in the field of medical analysis. As each brain imaging modality gives unique and key details related to each part of the tumor, many recent approaches used four modalities T1, T1c, T2, and FLAIR. Although many of them obtained a promising segmentation result on the BRATS 2018 dataset, they suffer from a complex structure that needs more time to train and test. So, in this paper, to obtain a flexible and effective brain tumor segmentation system, first, we propose a preprocessing approach to work only on a small part of the image rather than the whole part of the image. This method leads to a decrease in computing time and overcomes the overfitting problems in a Cascade Deep Learning model. In the second step, as we are dealing with a smaller part of brain images in each slice, a simple and efficient Cascade Convolutional Neural Network (C-ConvNet/C-CNN) is proposed. This C-CNN model mines both local and global features in two different routes. Also, to improve the brain tumor segmentation accuracy compared with the state-of-the-art models, a novel Distance-Wise Attention (DWA) mechanism is introduced. The DWA mechanism considers the effect of the center location of the tumor and the brain inside the model. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on the BRATS 2018 dataset and show that the proposed model obtains competitive results: the proposed method achieves a mean whole tumor, enhancing tumor, and tumor core dice scores of 0.9203, 0.9113 and 0.8726 respectively. Other quantitative and qualitative assessments are presented and discussed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pitchai R ◽  
Supraja P ◽  
Razia Sulthana A ◽  
Veeramakali T

Abstract Segmentation of brain tumors is a daunting process comprising the delineation of heterogeneous cancerous tissues and diffuse types in anatomical representations of the brain. Deep learning techniques have recently made important strides in the segmentation of brain tumors. However, owing to the irregularity of the tumor, most of the deep learning-based segmentation techniques are not used directly for tumor detection. Although recent studies are capable of addressing the irregularity issue and retaining permutation invariance, many approaches struggle to catch the valuable high-dimensional local features of finer resolution. Inspired by the fuzzy learning methods and an analysis of the shortcomings of existing methods, an automated fuzzy neighborhood learning-based 3D segmentation technique has been proposed for the detection of cerebrum tumors in 3D images. In this technique, the fuzzy neighborhood function is deeply integrated with the proposed network architecture. This technique has been evaluated on BRATS 2013dataset. The simulation results show that the proposed brain tumor detection technique is superior to other methods in the diagnosis of brain tumors with the dice coefficient of 0.85 and the Jaccard index of 0.74.


Author(s):  
K.Ganga Durga Prasad ◽  
A.J.N. Murthy ◽  
G Narasimha ◽  
New Sinha

The brain tumors, are the maximum not unusual place and threatening disease, main to a totally quick lifestyles of their maximum grade. Thus, remedy making plans is a key level to enhance the lifestyles of sufferers. Normally, distinct photo strategies which includes CT, MRI and ultrasound photo are used to hit upon the tumor in a brain. on this approach MRI photos are used to diagnose brain tumor guide type of tumor vs non-tumor is a tough challenge for radiologosts. we gift an approach for detection and type of tumors with inside the brain. The computerized brain tumor type could be very hard challenge in brain tumor. In this approach, computerized brain tumor detection is executedwith the aid of usingthe use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) type.Our proposed automation gadgetcould take an MRI and examine it to locate bengin (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous).


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