Brain Tumor Detection: 2 Novel Approaches

Abstract

In this paper, we propose 2 novel methods for brain tumor detection in MRI images. In the first proposed approach, we build upon prior research on ensemble methods by testing the concatenation of pre-trained models: features extracted via transfer learning are merged and segmented by classification algorithms or a stacked ensemble of those algorithms. In the second approach, we expand upon prior studies on convolutional neural networks: a convolutional neural network involving a specific module of layers is used for classification. The first approach achieved accuracy scores of 0.98 and the second approach achieved a score of 0.863, outperforming a benchmark VGG-16 model. Considerations to granular computing and circuit complexity theory are given in the paper as well.