Advancing Brain Tumor Detection: A Thorough Investigation of CNNs, Clustering, and SoftMax Classification in the Analysis of MRI Images

Jonayet Miah - University of South Dakota, South Dakota, USA
Duc M Cao - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Md Abu Sayed - New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Md Siam Taluckder - Lamar University, Texas, USA
Md Sabbirul Haque - IEEE Professional Community, IEEE,USA


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.62527/joiv.8.3.2208

Abstract


Brain tumors pose a significant global health challenge due to their high prevalence and mortality rates across all age groups. Detecting brain tumors at an early stage is crucial for effective treatment and patient outcomes. This study presents a comprehensive investigation into the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for brain tumor detection using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. The dataset, consisting of MRI scans from both healthy individuals and patients with brain tumors, was processed and fed into the CNN architecture. The SoftMax Fully Connected layer was employed to classify the images, achieving an accuracy of 98%. To evaluate the CNN's performance, two other classifiers, Radial Basis Function (RBF) and Decision Tree (DT), were utilized, yielding accuracy rates of 98.24% and 95.64%, respectively. The study also introduced a clustering method for feature extraction, improving CNN's accuracy. Sensitivity, Specificity, and Precision were employed alongside accuracy to comprehensively evaluate the network's performance. Notably, the SoftMax classifier demonstrated the highest accuracy among the categorizers, achieving 99.52% accuracy on test data. The presented research contributes to the growing field of deep learning in medical image analysis. The combination of CNNs and MRI data offers a promising tool for accurately detecting brain tumors, with potential implications for early diagnosis and improved patient care


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Brain tumors; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); medical image analysis; deep learning; clustering; SoftMax classifier

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