MRI-based brain tumour image detection using CNN based deep learning method

Abstract

Introduction

In modern days, checking the huge number of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) images and finding a brain tumour manually by a human is a very tedious and inaccurate task. It can affect the proper medical treatment of the patient. Again, it can be a hugely time-consuming task as it involves a huge number of image datasets. There is a good similarity between normal tissue and brain tumour cells in appearance, so segmentation of tumour regions become a difficult task to do. So there is an essentiality for a highly accurate automatic tumour detection method.

Method

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm to segment brain tumours from 2D Magnetic Resonance brain Images (MRI) by a convolutional neural network which is followed by traditional classifiers and deep learning methods. We have taken various MRI images with diverse Tumour sizes, locations, shapes, and different image intensities to train the model well. Furthermore, we have applied SVM classifier and other activation algorithms (softmax, RMSProp, sigmoid, etc) to cross-check our work. We implement our proposed method using “TensorFlow” and “Keras” in “Python” as it is an efficient programming language to perform fast work.

Result

In our work, CNN gained an accuracy of 99.74%, which is better than the state of the result obtained so far.

Conclusion

Our CNN based model will help the doctors to detect brain tumours in MRI images accurately, so that the speed in treatment will increase a lot.