Ziquan Zhu¹, Muhammad Attique Khan², Shui-Hua Wang¹, Yu-Dong Zhang^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.1, pp. 101-111, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.030790

Abstract Brain tumor refers to the formation of abnormal cells in the brain. It can be divided into benign and malignant. The main diagnostic methods for brain tumors are plain X-ray film, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and so on. However, these artificial diagnosis methods are easily affected by external factors. Scholars have made such impressive progress in brain tumors classification by using convolutional neural network (CNN). However, there are still some problems: (i) There are many parameters in CNN, which require much calculation. (ii) The brain tumor data sets are relatively small, which may lead to the overfitting problem in CNN.… More >

P. P. Fathimathul Rajeena^1,*, R. Sivakumar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.3, pp. 2837-2855, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.030144

Abstract An accurate and early diagnosis of brain tumors based on medical imaging modalities is of great interest because brain tumors are a harmful threat to a person’s health worldwide. Several medical imaging techniques have been used to analyze brain tumors, including computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). CT provides information about dense tissues, whereas MRI gives information about soft tissues. However, the fusion of CT and MRI images has little effect on enhancing the accuracy of the diagnosis of brain tumors. Therefore, machine learning methods have been adopted to diagnose brain tumors in recent years. This paper intends… More >

Irfan Ahmed Usmani^1,*, Muhammad Tahir Qadri¹, Razia Zia¹, Asif Aziz², Farheen Saeed³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 4369-4392, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030698

Abstract Knowledge-based transfer learning techniques have shown good performance for brain tumor classification, especially with small datasets. However, to obtain an optimized model for targeted brain tumor classification, it is challenging to select a pre-trained deep learning (DL) model, optimal values of hyperparameters, and optimization algorithm (solver). This paper first presents a brief review of recent literature related to brain tumor classification. Secondly, a robust framework for implementing the transfer learning technique is proposed. In the proposed framework, a Cartesian product matrix is generated to determine the optimal values of the two important hyperparameters: batch size and learning rate. An extensive… More >

Alaa Khalid Alduraibi^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 1295-1309, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026601

Abstract With technological advancements, deep machine learning can assist doctors in identifying the brain mass or tumor using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work extracts the deep features from 18-pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to train the classical classifiers to categorize the brain MRI images. As a result, DenseNet-201, EfficientNet-b0, and DarkNet-53 deep features trained support vector machine (SVM) model shows the best accuracy. Furthermore, the ReliefF method is applied to extract the best features. Then, the fitness function is defined to select the number of nearest neighbors of ReliefF algorithm and feature vector size. Finally, the particle swarm optimization algorithm… More >

G. R. Sreekanth¹, Adel Fahad Alrasheedi², K. Venkatachalam³, Mohamed Abouhawwash^4,5,*, S. S. Askar²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 249-265, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.024538

Abstract Brain tumor is considered as an unusual cell that presents and grows in the brain. Similarly, it may lead to cancerous or non-cancerous. So, to improve the survival rate of the patient and to give the best treatment at the earliest, it’s very necessary for early prediction of tumor. Accurate classification of tumor in the brain is important for improving the diagnosis. In accordance with that, various research programs are invited for the better treatment of the patients. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are applied to help the health associates for the classification of brain tumor and present their diagnosis. This… More >

Linguo Li^1,2, Shujing Li^1,*, Jian Su³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2355-2366, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019409

Abstract Brain tumor is one of the most common tumors with high mortality. Early detection is of great significance for the treatment and rehabilitation of patients. The single channel convolution layer and pool layer of traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) structure can only accept limited local context information. And most of the current methods only focus on the classification of benign and malignant brain tumors, multi classification of brain tumors is not common. In response to these shortcomings, considering that convolution kernels of different sizes can extract more comprehensive features, we put forward the multi-size convolutional kernel module. And considering that… More >

Ahsan Aziz¹, Muhammad Attique¹, Usman Tariq², Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Muhammad Nazir¹, Chang-Won Jeong⁴, Reham R. Mostafa⁵, Rasha H. Sakr⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 2653-2670, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018606

Abstract Owing to technological developments, Medical image analysis has received considerable attention in the rapid detection and classification of diseases. The brain is an essential organ in humans. Brain tumors cause loss of memory, vision, and name. In 2020, approximately 18,020 deaths occurred due to brain tumors. These cases can be minimized if a brain tumor is diagnosed at a very early stage. Computer vision researchers have introduced several techniques for brain tumor detection and classification. However, owing to many factors, this is still a challenging task. These challenges relate to the tumor size, the shape of a tumor, location of… More >

Hanan Abdullah Mengash^1,*, Hanan A. Hosni Mahmoud^2,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.2, pp. 1551-1563, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.016907

Abstract Detection of brain tumors in MRI images is the first step in brain cancer diagnosis. The accuracy of the diagnosis depends highly on the expertise of radiologists. Therefore, automated diagnosis of brain cancer from MRI is receiving a large amount of attention. Also, MRI tumor detection is usually followed by a biopsy (an invasive procedure), which is a medical procedure for brain tumor classification. It is of high importance to devise automated methods to aid radiologists in brain cancer tumor diagnosis without resorting to invasive procedures. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is deemed to be one of the best machine learning… More >

Ayesha Bin T. Tahir¹, Muhamamd Attique Khan¹, Majed Alhaisoni², Junaid Ali Khan¹, Yunyoung Nam^3,*, Shui-Hua Wang⁴, Kashif Javed⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1099-1116, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015154

Abstract Background: A brain tumor reflects abnormal cell growth. Challenges: Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy are used to treat brain tumors, but these procedures are painful and costly. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive modality for diagnosing tumors, but scans must be interpretated by an expert radiologist. Methodology: We used deep learning and improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) to automate brain tumor classification. MRI scan contrast is enhanced by ant colony optimization (ACO); the scans are then used to further train a pretrained deep learning model, via transfer learning (TL), and to extract features from two dense layers. We fused… More >

Neelum Noreen^1,*, Sellapan Palaniappan¹, Abdul Qayyum², Iftikhar Ahmad³, Madini O. Alassafi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3967-3982, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014158

Abstract Brain tumors are life-threatening for adults and children. However, accurate and timely detection can save lives. This study focuses on three different types of brain tumors: Glioma, meningioma, and pituitary tumors. Many studies describe the analysis and classification of brain tumors, but few have looked at the problem of feature engineering. Methods are needed to overcome the drawbacks of manual diagnosis and conventional feature-engineering techniques. An automatic diagnostic system is thus necessary to extract features and classify brain tumors accurately. While progress continues to be made, the automatic diagnoses of brain tumors still face challenges of low accuracy and high… More >