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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Novel Deep Learning Method for Recognition and Classification of Brain Tumors from MRI Images.

Momina Masood, Tahira Nazir, Marriam Nawaz, Awais Mehmood, Junaid Rashid, Hyuk-Yoon Kwon, Toqeer Mahmood, Amir Hussain

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 158 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Momina MasoodDepartment of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan.
Tahira NazirDepartment of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-8130-3721
Marriam NawazDepartment of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan.
Awais MehmoodDepartment of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila 47050, Pakistan.
Junaid RashidDepartment of Computer Science, AIR University Islamabad, Aerospace and Aviation Campus Kamra, Kamra 43570, Pakistan.
Hyuk-Yoon KwonDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1125-6533
Toqeer MahmoodDepartment of Computer Science, National Textile University, Faisalabad 37610, Pakistan.
Amir HussainData Science and Cyber Analytics Research Group, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH11 4DY, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8080-082X
University of Engineering and Technology Taxila · PKAir University · PKEdinburgh Napier University · GBNational Textile University · PKSeoul National University of Science and Technology · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2018R1C1B5084424
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A brain tumor is an abnormal growth in brain cells that causes damage to various blood vessels and nerves in the human body. An earlier and accurate diagnosis of the brain tumor is of foremost important to avoid future complications. Precise segmentation of brain tumors provides a basis for surgical planning and treatment to doctors. Manual detection using MRI images is computationally complex in cases where the survival of the patient is dependent on timely treatment, and the performance relies on domain expertise. Therefore, computerized detection of tumors is still a challenging task due to significant variations in their location and structure, i.e., irregular shapes and ambiguous boundaries. In this study, we propose a custom Mask Region-based Convolution neural network (Mask RCNN) with a densenet-41 backbone architecture that is trained via transfer learning for precise classification and segmentation of brain tumors. Our method is evaluated on two different benchmark datasets using various quantitative measures. Comparative results show that the custom Mask-RCNN can more precisely detect tumor locations using bounding boxes and return segmentation masks to provide exact tumor regions. Our proposed model achieved an accuracy of 96.3% and 98.34% for segmentation and classification respectively, demonstrating enhanced robustness compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

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brain tumordeep learningMask-RCNNMRI

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PMID33919358
PMCPMC8143310
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