Detection of Brain Tumor and Identification of Tumor Region Using Deep Neural Network On FMRI Images

Abstract

As brain is the most vital organ of the human body, the affects of brain related diseases can be severe. One of the most harmful diseases is brain tumor, which results in a very short life expectancy of the affected patient. Detection of brain tumor is a challenging task in the early stages. Still, with the help of modern technology and machine learning algorithms, it has become a matter of great interest for research. While detecting the brain tumor of an affected person, we are considering the fMRI data of the patient. Our aim is to identify whether the tumor is present in the patient’s brain or not. We use a Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) that is good enough to generate high accuracy. We have used some deeper architecture design VGG16, VGG19, and Inception v3 for better accuracy. Three classification techniques are used namely binary classification, lobe based classification, and position based classification. The main contribution of our proposed work is that we have identified the specific region of the brain where the tumor is located. The region-based classification distinguishes our work from others that are applied on the same dataset. For binary classification, we found approximately 95% accuracy from all the three architectures. Furthermore, we found approximately 78% accuracy for lobe based classification and approximately 97% accuracy for position based classification. The experimental results indicate the superiority of our proposed method in terms of identifying the brain tumor.