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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Brain Tumor Segmentation from MRI Images Using Handcrafted Convolutional Neural Network.

Faizan Ullah, Muhammad Nadeem, Mohammad Abrar, Muna Al-Razgan, Taha Alfakih, Farhan Amin, Abdu Salam

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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Faizan UllahDepartment of Computer Science, International Islamic University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Muhammad NadeemDepartment of Computer Science, International Islamic University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-9290-5461
Mohammad AbrarDepartment of Computer Science, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda 24420, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-2585-0573
Muna Al-RazganDepartment of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11345, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9705-3867
Taha AlfakihDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0366-5932
Farhan AminDepartment of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-6385-5511
Abdu SalamDepartment of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-8580-0223

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is critical for the diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring of therapeutic outcomes. Thus, this research introduces a novel hybrid approach that combines handcrafted features with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to enhance the performance of brain tumor segmentation. In this study, handcrafted features were extracted from MRI scans that included intensity-based, texture-based, and shape-based features. In parallel, a unique CNN architecture was developed and trained to detect the features from the data automatically. The proposed hybrid method was combined with the handcrafted features and the features identified by CNN in different pathways to a new CNN. In this study, the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge dataset was used to measure the performance using a variety of assessment measures, for instance, segmentation accuracy, dice score, sensitivity, and specificity. The achieved results showed that our proposed approach outperformed the traditional handcrafted feature-based and individual CNN-based methods used for brain tumor segmentation. In addition, the incorporation of handcrafted features enhanced the performance of CNN, yielding a more robust and generalizable solution. This research has significant potential for real-world clinical applications where precise and efficient brain tumor segmentation is essential. Future research directions include investigating alternative feature fusion techniques and incorporating additional imaging modalities to further improve the proposed method's performance.

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brain tumorcomputational approachesfeature fusionhandcrafted featureshybrid approachoptimization methodssegmentation

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