Deep Transfer Learning Approaches in Performance Analysis of Brain Tumor Classification Using MRI Images

Brain tumor classification is a very important and the most prominent step for assessing life-threatening abnormal tissues and providing an efficient treatment in patient recovery. To identify pathological conditions in the brain, there exist various medical imaging technologies. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is extensively used in medical imaging due to its excellent image quality and independence from ionizing radiations. The significance of deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence in the area of medical diagnosis applications, has macadamized the path in rapid developments for brain tumor detection from MRI to higher prediction rate. For brain tumor analysis and classification, the convolution neural network (CNN) is the most extensive and widely used deep learning algorithm. In this work, we present a comparative performance analysis of transfer learning-based CNN-pretrained VGG-16, ResNet-50, and Inception-v3 models for automatic prediction of tumor cells in the brain. Pretrained models are demonstrated on the MRI brain tumor images dataset consisting of 233 images. Our paper aims to locate brain tumors with the utilization of the VGG-16 pretrained CNN model. The performance of our model will be evaluated on accuracy. As an outcome, we can estimate that the pretrained model VGG-16 determines highly adequate results with an increase in the accuracy rate of training and validation.

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Brain tumor classification plays a crucial role in assessing abnormal tissues and providing effective treatment. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used for identifying pathological conditions in the brain. Deep learning, especially convolution neural network (CNN), has made rapid developments in brain tumor detection. This study compares the performance of transfer learning-based pretrained CNN models (VGG-16, ResNet-50, and Inception-v3) in automatic prediction of brain tumor cells. The results show that the VGG-16 model achieves highly accurate results.