Brain Tumor Classification from MRI Images Using Convolutional Neural Network

Brain tumor can cause the creation of most aggressive cancer, with a much shorter life expectancy in most advanced stages, unless identified and treated accordingly. In earlier, radiologists have to manually identify the tumors from MRI images or other imaging types. That is both time consuming and threatening to the misclassification that could affect the recovery plan of a patient. Technological innovations and machine learning assist radiologists to detect tumors without invasive procedures. One of the machine learning algorithms that has been shown to be effective at image segmentation and classification is the convolutional neural network (CNN). In this proposed work, a novel CNN architecture was used on a publicly available figshare dataset to identify three brain tumor types. The proposed CNN architecture outperformed most state-of-the-art approaches, achieving a classification accuracy of 96.90 %. Precision, recall, and F1-score are some of the other evaluation metrics used in the study. In addition, the paper includes an in-depth analysis of misclassifications.