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Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation Using RCNN

Maham Khan¹, Syed Adnan Shah¹, Tenvir Ali², Quratulain², Aymen Khan², Gyu Sang Choi^3,*
1 Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, 47080, Pakistan
2 Faculty of Computing, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, 63100, Pakistan
3 Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongbuk, 38541, Korea
* Corresponding Author: Gyu Sang Choi. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Machine Learning Applications in Medical, Finance, Education and Cyber Security)

Computers, Materials & Continua 2022, 71(3), 5005-5020. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.023007

Received 25 August 2021; Accepted 05 November 2021; Issue published 14 January 2022

Abstract

Brain tumors are considered as most fatal cancers. To reduce the risk of death, early identification of the disease is required. One of the best available methods to evaluate brain tumors is Magnetic resonance Images (MRI). Brain tumor detection and segmentation are tough as brain tumors may vary in size, shape, and location. That makes manual detection of brain tumors by exploring MRI a tedious job for radiologists and doctors’. So an automated brain tumor detection and segmentation is required. This work suggests a Region-based Convolution Neural Network (RCNN) approach for automated brain tumor identification and segmentation using MR images, which helps solve the difficulties of brain tumor identification efficiently and accurately. Our methodology is based on the accurate and efficient selection of tumorous areas. That reduces computational complexity and time. We have validated the designed experimental setup on a standard dataset, BraTS 2020. We used binary evaluation matrices based on Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) and Mean Average Precision (mAP). The segmentation results are compared with state-of-the-art methodologies to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The suggested approach attained an average DSC of 0.92 and mAP 0.92 for 10 patients, while on the whole dataset, the scores are DSC 0.89 and mAP 0.90. The following results clearly show the performance efficiency of the proposed methodology.

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Keywords

Brain tumor; MRI; preprocessing; image segmentation; brain tumor localization; medical; ML; RCNN; BraTS 2020; LGG; HGG

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