An integrated deep learning and supervised learning approach for early detection of brain tumor using magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract

Diagnosing brain tumors is difficult, especially at an early stage of the disease. Conventional approaches often cause delays in providing required treatment to the patients and shorten their lifespan. This paper presents a novel integrated approach with advanced subsets of artificial intelligence, including deep learning and supervised learning algorithms. These new technologies have demonstrated outstanding potential due to their ability to capture the appropriate features based on the input data. They can assist medical experts in identifying abnormal growth of cells inside the brain. We use publicly available brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets to diagnose brain tumors and develop an automated system. The proposed approach uses data augmentation to enhance the image sizes and maintain standardization. We then deploy a visual geometry group with 16 layers following transfer learning to help minimize the medical experts’ workload in making accurate decisions. We extract the most significant features and improve the diagnostic speed and accuracy using a supervised learning algorithm and linear support vector machines (SVM). The proposed model outperforms the existing approaches with an accuracy of 98.87%, precision of 99.09%, recall of 98.73%, specificity of 99.02%, and F1-score of 98.91%.