scholarly journals Chaotic Harris Hawks Optimization with Quasi-Reflection-Based Learning: An Application to Enhance CNN Design

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (19) ◽  
pp. 6654
Author(s):  
Jameer Basha ◽  
Nebojsa Bacanin ◽  
Nikola Vukobrat ◽  
Miodrag Zivkovic ◽  
K. Venkatachalam ◽  
...  

The research presented in this manuscript proposes a novel Harris Hawks optimization algorithm with practical application for evolving convolutional neural network architecture to classify various grades of brain tumor using magnetic resonance imaging. The proposed improved Harris Hawks optimization method, which belongs to the group of swarm intelligence metaheuristics, further improves the exploration and exploitation abilities of the basic algorithm by incorporating a chaotic population initialization and local search, along with a replacement strategy based on the quasi-reflection-based learning procedure. The proposed method was first evaluated on 10 recent CEC2019 benchmarks and the achieved results are compared with the ones generated by the basic algorithm, as well as with results of other state-of-the-art approaches that were tested under the same experimental conditions. In subsequent empirical research, the proposed method was adapted and applied for a practical challenge of convolutional neural network design. The evolved network structures were validated against two datasets that contain images of a healthy brain and brain with tumors. The first dataset comprises well-known IXI and cancer imagining archive images, while the second dataset consists of axial T1-weighted brain tumor images, as proposed in one recently published study in the Q1 journal. After performing data augmentation, the first dataset encompasses 8.000 healthy and 8.000 brain tumor images with grades I, II, III, and IV and the second dataset includes 4.908 images with Glioma, Meningioma, and Pituitary, with 1.636 images belonging to each tumor class. The swarm intelligence-driven convolutional neural network approach was evaluated and compared to other, similar methods and achieved a superior performance. The obtained accuracy was over 95% in all conducted experiments. Based on the established results, it is reasonable to conclude that the proposed approach could be used to develop networks that can assist doctors in diagnostics and help in the early detection of brain tumors.

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0

Brain tumor is a severe cancer disease caused by uncontrollable and abnormal partitioning of cells. Timely disease detection and treatment plans lead to the increased life expectancy of patients. Automated detection and classification of brain tumor are a more challenging process which is based on the clinician’s knowledge and experience. For this fact, one of the most practical and important techniques is to use deep learning. Recent progress in the fields of deep learning has helped the clinician’s in medical imaging for medical diagnosis of brain tumor. In this paper, we present a comparison of Deep Convolutional Neural Network models for automatically binary classification query MRI images dataset with the goal of taking precision tools to health professionals based on fined recent versions of DenseNet, Xception, NASNet-A, and VGGNet. The experiments were conducted using an MRI open dataset of 3,762 images. Other performance measures used in the study are the area under precision, recall, and specificity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1494-1505
Author(s):  
Hyo-Hun Kim ◽  
Byung-Woo Hong

In this work, we present an image segmentation algorithm based on the convolutional neural network framework where the scale space theory is incorporated in the course of training procedure. The construction of data augmentation is designed to apply the scale space to the training data in order to effectively deal with the variability of regions of interest in geometry and appearance such as shape and contrast. The proposed data augmentation algorithm via scale space is aimed to improve invariant features with respect to both geometry and appearance by taking into consideration of their diffusion process. We develop a segmentation algorithm based on the convolutional neural network framework where the network architecture consists of encoding and decoding substructures in combination with the data augmentation scheme via the scale space induced by the heat equation. The quantitative analysis using the cardiac MRI dataset indicates that the proposed algorithm achieves better accuracy in the delineation of the left ventricles, which demonstrates the potential of the algorithm in the application of the whole heart segmentation as a compute-aided diagnosis system for the cardiac diseases.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Deepthi Kamath ◽  
Misba Firdose Fathima ◽  
Monica K. P ◽  
Kusuma Mohanchandra

Alzheimer's disease is an extremely popular cause of dementia which leads to memory loss, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. Detection of Alzheimer’s at a prior stage is crucial as it can prevent significant damage to the patient’s brain. In this paper, a method to detect Alzheimer’s  Disease from Brain MRI images is proposed. The proposed approach extracts shape features and texture of the Hippocampus region from the MRI scans and a Neural Network is used as a Multi-Class Classifier for detection of AD. The proposed approach is implemented and it gives better accuracy as compared to conventional approaches. In this paper, Convolutional Neural Network is the Neural Network approach used for the detection of AD at a prodromal stage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1356-1367
Author(s):  
Kennedy Okokpujie ◽  
Etinosa Noma-Osaghae ◽  
Samuel Ndueso John ◽  
Charles Ndujiuba ◽  
Imhade Princess Okokpujie

The popularity of face recognition systems has increased due to their non-invasive method of image acquisition, thus boasting the widespread applications. Face ageing is one major factor that influences the performance of face recognition algorithms. In this study, the authors present a comparative study of the two most accepted and experimented face ageing datasets (FG-Net and morph II). These datasets were used to simulate age invariant face recognition (AIFR) models. Four types of noises were added to the two face ageing datasets at the preprocessing stage. The addition of noise at the preprocessing stage served as a data augmentation technique that increased the number of sample images available for deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) experimentation, improved the proposed AIFR model and the trait aging features extraction process. The proposed AIFR models are developed with the pre-trained Inception-ResNet-v2 deep convolutional neural network architecture. On testing and comparing the models, the results revealed that FG-Net is more efficient over Morph with an accuracy of 0.15%, loss function of 71%, mean square error (MSE) of 39% and mean absolute error (MAE) of -0.63%.


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