Brain Tumor Detection and Multi-Grade Segmentation Through Hybrid Caps-VGGNet Model

Around the world, brain tumors are becoming the leading cause of mortality. The inability to undertake a timely tumor diagnosis is the primary cause of this pandemic. Brain cancer diagnosis is a crucial procedure that relies on the expertise and experience of the doctor. Radiologists must use an automated tumor classification model to find brain cancers. The current model's accuracy has to be improved to get suitable therapies. Radiologists can consult various computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) models in the literature on medical imaging to assist them with their patients. Previous research has widely used CNN models for tumor detection and classification, which typically require large datasets. This research proposed the Caps-VGGNet hybrid model, which integrates the CapsNet model with the VGGNet model by adding the layers of VGGNet. The presented model addresses the challenge of requiring large datasets by automatically extracting and classifying features. The suggested algorithm's effectiveness was assessed using the Brats-2020 and Brats-2019 dataset, which contains high-quality images of brain tumors. Compared to other conventional and hybrid models, the empirical outcomes of the suggested model indicate that it exhibited the highest level of effectiveness and superior efficacy in terms of accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity. Specifically, the presented hybrid model attained an accuracy of 0.99, a specificity of 0.99, and a sensitivity of 0.98 on the Brats20 dataset.

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Brain tumors have become the leading cause of mortality worldwide due to the inability to diagnose them in a timely manner. The accuracy of the current tumor classification model needs to be improved for better therapies. Previous research has used CNN models for tumor detection, but this study proposes a hybrid model, the Caps-VGGNet, which achieved the highest level of effectiveness and superior efficacy in terms of accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity.