An optimal brain tumor detection by convolutional neural network and Enhanced Sparrow Search Algorithm

• Published in: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine Vol. 235; no. 4; p. 459
• Main Authors: Liu, Tingting, Yuan, Zhi, Wu, Li, Badami, Benjamin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Brain tumor; DWT; Enhanced Sparrow Search Algorithm; convolutional neural network; GLCM
• ISSN: 2041-3033
• DOI: 10.1177/0954411920987964

Precise and timely detection of brain tumor area has a very high effect on the selection of medical care, its success rate and following the disease process during treatment. Existing algorithms for brain tumor diagnosis have problems in terms of better performance on various brain images with different qualities, low sensitivity of the results to the parameters introduced in the algorithm and also reliable diagnosis of tumors in the early stages of formation. A computer aided system is proposed in this research for automatic brain tumors diagnosis. The method includes four main parts: pre-processing and segmentation techniques, features extraction and final categorization. Gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) were applied for characteristic extraction of the MR images which are then injected to an optimized convolutional neural network (CNN) for the final diagnosis. The CNN is optimized by a new design of Sparrow Search Algorithm classification (ESSA). Finally, a comparison of the results of the method with three state of the art technique on the Whole Brain Atlas (WBA) database to show its higher efficiency.