Due to the paramount importance of the medical field in the lives of people, researchers and experts exploited advancements in computer techniques to solve many diagnostic and analytical medical problems. Brain tumor diagnosis is one of the most important computational problems that has been studied and focused on. The brain tumor is determined by segmentation of brain images using many techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain tumor segmentation methods have been developed since a long time and are still evolving, but the current trend is to use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to its many breakthroughs and unprecedented results that have been achieved in various applications and their capacity to learn a hierarchy of progressively complicated characteristics from input without requiring manual feature extraction. Considering these unprecedented results, we present this paper as a brief review for main CNNs architecture types used in brain tumor segmentation. Specifically, we focus on researcher works that used the well-known brain tumor segmentation (BraTS) dataset.
DIRECTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF BRAIN TUMOR IMAGES FROM MRI USING CNN-BASED DEE...IRJET Journal
This document presents research on using a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for the detection and classification of brain tumors from MRI images. The CNN model improves the accuracy of tumor detection and can serve as a useful tool for physicians. The researchers trained and tested several CNN architectures, including CNN, ResNet50, MobileNetV2, and VGG19 on an MRI brain image database. Their proposed model uses a modified Residual U-Net architecture with residual blocks and attention gates to better segment tumors and extract local features from MRI images. Evaluation results found their model achieved better accuracy than existing methods like U-Net and CNN for brain tumor segmentation tasks.
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This document presents a method for detecting hemorrhage in brain CT scans using deep learning. It begins with an introduction to brain hemorrhage and the need for automated detection. Previous related work using various segmentation and classification methods is summarized. Deep learning is identified as a promising technique due to its ability to extract complex features from images. The proposed method uses a convolutional neural network model with several convolutional, max pooling, dropout and dense layers to classify brain CT scans as either normal or hemorrhagic. The model is trained on 180 images and tested on 20 images, achieving an accuracy of 94.4% at predicting hemorrhage. The method provides a fast and automated way to detect hemorrhage in brain CT scans to help
Brain tumor classification in magnetic resonance imaging images using convol...IJECEIAES
Deep learning (DL) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) used in several sectors, such as cybersecurity, finance, marketing, automated vehicles, and medicine. Due to the advancement of computer performance, DL has become very successful. In recent years, it has processed large amounts of data, and achieved good results, especially in image analysis such as segmentation and classification. Manual evaluation of tumors, based on medical images, requires expensive human labor and can easily lead to misdiagnosis of tumors. Researchers are interested in using DL algorithms for automatic tumor diagnosis. convolutional neural network (CNN) is one such algorithm. It is suitable for medical image classification tasks. In this paper, we will focus on the development of four sequential CNN models to classify brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. We followed two steps, the first being data preprocessing and the second being automatic classification of preprocessed images using CNN. The experiments were conducted on a dataset of 3,000 MRI images, divided into two classes: tumor and normal. We obtained a good accuracy of 98,27%, which outperforms other existing models.
Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation using UNETIRJET Journal
This document discusses brain tumor detection and segmentation using the UNET model. It analyzes previous research on brain tumor segmentation techniques and their limitations. The proposed method uses the BraTS 2020 dataset containing 369 MRI images for training and 125 for testing. It develops a 3D UNET model for multimodal brain tumor segmentation. The model generates 3D outputs and achieves 98.5% accuracy in segmenting whole, core and enhancing tumors.
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This document proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) based method for accurate brain tumor detection in MRI images to improve robustness. The method aims to enhance detection accuracy and identify tumor boundaries while differentiating tumor regions from healthy tissue. Experimental results using a large annotated MRI image dataset demonstrate the proposed method achieves superior performance compared to existing approaches. The achieved accuracy, efficiency and specificity validate the effectiveness of the CNN-based method for accurate brain tumor detection, with potential to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.
A modified residual network for detection and classification of Alzheimer’s ...IJECEIAES
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a brain disease that significantly declines a person's ability to remember and behave normally. By applying several approaches to distinguish between various stages of AD, neuroimaging data has been used to extract different patterns associated with various phases of AD. However, because the brain patterns of older adults and those in different phases are similar, researchers have had difficulty classifying them. In this paper, the 50-layer residual neural network (ResNet) is modified by adding extra convolution layers to make the extracted features more diverse. Besides, the activation function (ReLU) was replaced with (Leaky ReLU) because ReLU takes the negative parts of its input, drops them to zero, and retains the positive parts. These negative inputs may contain useful feature information that could aid in the development of high-level discriminative features. Thus, Leaky ReLU was used instead of ReLU to prevent any potential loss of input information. In order to train the network from scratch without encountering the issue of overfitting, we added a dropout layer before the fully connected layer. The proposed method successfully classified the four stages of AD with an accuracy of 97.49 % and 98 % for precision, recall, and f1-score.
Exploring Deep Learning-based Segmentation Techniques for Brain Structures in...IRJET Journal
This paper explores using deep learning techniques for brain tumor segmentation in MRI scans. It uses the BraTS dataset, which contains MRI scans with manual segmentations of tumor regions. The paper investigates using the U-Net convolutional neural network architecture with transfer learning to improve segmentation accuracy and speed. It preprocesses the BraTS data, trains models with optimized hyperparameters, and evaluates the models' performance. The results show deep learning models like the fine-tuned U-Net significantly outperform manual segmentation in both precision and efficiency. The final model notably enhances tumor detection, contributing to more prompt and accurate diagnosis and treatment planning for brain tumors.
DIRECTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF BRAIN TUMOR IMAGES FROM MRI USING CNN-BASED DEE...IRJET Journal
This document presents research on using a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for the detection and classification of brain tumors from MRI images. The CNN model improves the accuracy of tumor detection and can serve as a useful tool for physicians. The researchers trained and tested several CNN architectures, including CNN, ResNet50, MobileNetV2, and VGG19 on an MRI brain image database. Their proposed model uses a modified Residual U-Net architecture with residual blocks and attention gates to better segment tumors and extract local features from MRI images. Evaluation results found their model achieved better accuracy than existing methods like U-Net and CNN for brain tumor segmentation tasks.
IRJET - Detection of Heamorrhage in Brain using Deep LearningIRJET Journal
This document presents a method for detecting hemorrhage in brain CT scans using deep learning. It begins with an introduction to brain hemorrhage and the need for automated detection. Previous related work using various segmentation and classification methods is summarized. Deep learning is identified as a promising technique due to its ability to extract complex features from images. The proposed method uses a convolutional neural network model with several convolutional, max pooling, dropout and dense layers to classify brain CT scans as either normal or hemorrhagic. The model is trained on 180 images and tested on 20 images, achieving an accuracy of 94.4% at predicting hemorrhage. The method provides a fast and automated way to detect hemorrhage in brain CT scans to help
Brain tumor classification in magnetic resonance imaging images using convol...IJECEIAES
Deep learning (DL) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) used in several sectors, such as cybersecurity, finance, marketing, automated vehicles, and medicine. Due to the advancement of computer performance, DL has become very successful. In recent years, it has processed large amounts of data, and achieved good results, especially in image analysis such as segmentation and classification. Manual evaluation of tumors, based on medical images, requires expensive human labor and can easily lead to misdiagnosis of tumors. Researchers are interested in using DL algorithms for automatic tumor diagnosis. convolutional neural network (CNN) is one such algorithm. It is suitable for medical image classification tasks. In this paper, we will focus on the development of four sequential CNN models to classify brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. We followed two steps, the first being data preprocessing and the second being automatic classification of preprocessed images using CNN. The experiments were conducted on a dataset of 3,000 MRI images, divided into two classes: tumor and normal. We obtained a good accuracy of 98,27%, which outperforms other existing models.
Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation using UNETIRJET Journal
This document discusses brain tumor detection and segmentation using the UNET model. It analyzes previous research on brain tumor segmentation techniques and their limitations. The proposed method uses the BraTS 2020 dataset containing 369 MRI images for training and 125 for testing. It develops a 3D UNET model for multimodal brain tumor segmentation. The model generates 3D outputs and achieves 98.5% accuracy in segmenting whole, core and enhancing tumors.
Convolutional Neural Network Based Method for Accurate Brain Tumor Detection ...IRJET Journal
This document proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN) based method for accurate brain tumor detection in MRI images to improve robustness. The method aims to enhance detection accuracy and identify tumor boundaries while differentiating tumor regions from healthy tissue. Experimental results using a large annotated MRI image dataset demonstrate the proposed method achieves superior performance compared to existing approaches. The achieved accuracy, efficiency and specificity validate the effectiveness of the CNN-based method for accurate brain tumor detection, with potential to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.
A modified residual network for detection and classification of Alzheimer’s ...IJECEIAES
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a brain disease that significantly declines a person's ability to remember and behave normally. By applying several approaches to distinguish between various stages of AD, neuroimaging data has been used to extract different patterns associated with various phases of AD. However, because the brain patterns of older adults and those in different phases are similar, researchers have had difficulty classifying them. In this paper, the 50-layer residual neural network (ResNet) is modified by adding extra convolution layers to make the extracted features more diverse. Besides, the activation function (ReLU) was replaced with (Leaky ReLU) because ReLU takes the negative parts of its input, drops them to zero, and retains the positive parts. These negative inputs may contain useful feature information that could aid in the development of high-level discriminative features. Thus, Leaky ReLU was used instead of ReLU to prevent any potential loss of input information. In order to train the network from scratch without encountering the issue of overfitting, we added a dropout layer before the fully connected layer. The proposed method successfully classified the four stages of AD with an accuracy of 97.49 % and 98 % for precision, recall, and f1-score.
Exploring Deep Learning-based Segmentation Techniques for Brain Structures in...IRJET Journal
This paper explores using deep learning techniques for brain tumor segmentation in MRI scans. It uses the BraTS dataset, which contains MRI scans with manual segmentations of tumor regions. The paper investigates using the U-Net convolutional neural network architecture with transfer learning to improve segmentation accuracy and speed. It preprocesses the BraTS data, trains models with optimized hyperparameters, and evaluates the models' performance. The results show deep learning models like the fine-tuned U-Net significantly outperform manual segmentation in both precision and efficiency. The final model notably enhances tumor detection, contributing to more prompt and accurate diagnosis and treatment planning for brain tumors.
3D Segmentation of Brain Tumor ImagingIJAEMSJORNAL
A brain tumor is a collection of anomalous cells that grow in or around the brain. Brain tumors affect the humans badly, it can disrupt proper brain function and be life-threatening. In this project, we have proposed a system to detect, segment, and classify the tumors present in the brain. Once the brain tumor is identified at the very beginning, proper treatments can be done and it may be cured.
The IoT and registration of MRI brain diagnosis based on genetic algorithm an...IJEECSIAES
The technology of the multimodal brain image registration is the key method for accurate and rapid diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases. For achieving high-resolution image registration, a fast sub pixel registration algorithm is used based on single-step discrete wavelet transform (DWT) combined with phase convolution neural network (CNN) to classify the registration of brain tumors. In this work apply the genetic algorithm and CNN clasifcation in registration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image. This approach follows eight steps, reading the source of MRI brain image and loading the reference image, enhencment all MRI images by bilateral filter, transforming DWT image by applying the DWT2, evaluating (fitness function) each MRI image by using entropy, applying the genetic algorithm, by selecting the two images based on rollout wheel and crossover of the two images, the CNN classify the result of subtraction to normal or abnormal, “in the eighth one,” the Arduino and global system for mobile (GSM) 8080 are applied to send the message to patient. The proposed model is tested on MRI Medical City Hospital in Baghdad database consist 550 normal and 350 abnormal and split to 80% training and 20 testing, the proposed model result achieves the 98.8% accuracy.
The IoT and registration of MRI brain diagnosis based on genetic algorithm an...nooriasukmaningtyas
The document describes a proposed model for MRI brain diagnosis using genetic algorithms, convolutional neural networks, and the Internet of Things. The model has eight steps: loading MRI images, enhancing images, applying discrete wavelet transform, evaluating images using entropy, applying genetic algorithm for registration, subtracting images and using CNN to classify results as normal or abnormal, and sending messages to patients using Arduino and GSM. The model was tested on 550 normal and 350 abnormal MRI images, achieving 98.8% accuracy in classification.
The document discusses using a U-Net convolutional neural network to automatically segment brain tumors in MRI images. It aims to eliminate the need for domain expertise by using deep learning to extract hierarchical features. The U-Net model is trained on the BRATS 2017 dataset and is able to segment tumors with 5% higher accuracy than previous methods, as measured by the Dice similarity coefficient. The system could be expanded to analyze additional MRI modalities and further improve automated tumor detection.
The document discusses using a U-Net convolutional neural network to automatically segment brain tumors in MRI images. It aims to eliminate the need for domain expertise by using deep learning to extract hierarchical features. The U-Net model is trained on the BRATS 2017 dataset and is able to segment tumors with 5% higher accuracy than previous methods, as measured by the Dice similarity coefficient. The system could be expanded to analyze additional MRI modalities and further improve automated tumor detection.
A review on detecting brain tumors using deep learning and magnetic resonanc...IJECEIAES
Early detection and treatment in the medical field offer a critical opportunity to survive people. However, the brain has a significant role in human life as it handles most human body activities. Accurate diagnosis of brain tumors dramatically helps speed up the patient's recovery and the cost of treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a commonly used technique due to the massive progress of artificial intelligence in medicine, machine learning, and recently, deep learning has shown significant results in detecting brain tumors. This review paper is a comprehensive article suitable as a starting point for researchers to demonstrate essential aspects of using deep learning in diagnosing brain tumors. More specifically, it has been restricted to only detecting brain tumors (binary classification as normal or tumor) using MRI datasets in 2020 and 2021. In addition, the paper presents the frequently used datasets, convolutional neural network architectures (standard and designed), and transfer learning techniques. The crucial limitations of applying the deep learning approach, including a lack of datasets, overfitting, and vanishing gradient problems, are also discussed. Finally, alternative solutions for these limitations are obtained.
A deep learning approach for brain tumor detection using magnetic resonance ...IJECEIAES
The growth of abnormal cells in the brain’s tissue causes brain tumors. Brain tumors are considered one of the most dangerous disorders in children and adults. It develops quickly, and the patient’s survival prospects are slim if not appropriately treated. Proper treatment planning and precise diagnoses are essential to improving a patient’s life expectancy. Brain tumors are mainly diagnosed using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). As part of a convolution neural network (CNN)-based illustration, an architecture containing five convolution layers, five max-pooling layers, a Flatten layer, and two dense layers has been proposed for detecting brain tumors from MRI images. The proposed model includes an automatic feature extractor, modified hidden layer architecture, and activation function. Several test cases were performed, and the proposed model achieved 98.6% accuracy and 97.8% precision score with a low cross-entropy rate. Compared with other approaches such as adjacent feature propagation network (AFPNet), mask region-based CNN (mask RCNN), YOLOv5, and Fourier CNN (FCNN), the proposed model has performed better in detecting brain tumors.
Glioblastomas brain tumour segmentation based on convolutional neural network...IJECEIAES
Brain tumour segmentation can improve diagnostics efficiency, rise the prediction rate and treatment planning. This will help the doctors and experts in their work. Where many types of brain tumour may be classified easily, the gliomas tumour is challenging to be segmented because of the diffusion between the tumour and the surrounding edema. Another important challenge with this type of brain tumour is that the tumour may grow anywhere in the brain with different shape and size. Brain cancer presents one of the most famous diseases over the world, which encourage the researchers to find a high-throughput system for tumour detection and classification. Several approaches have been proposed to design automatic detection and classification systems. This paper presents an integrated framework to segment the gliomas brain tumour automatically using pixel clustering for the MRI images foreground and background and classify its type based on deep learning mechanism, which is the convolutional neural network. In this work, a novel segmentation and classification system is proposed to detect the tumour cells and classify the brain image if it is healthy or not. After collecting data for healthy and non-healthy brain images, satisfactory results are found and registered using computer vision approaches. This approach can be used as a part of a bigger diagnosis system for breast tumour detection and manipulation.
Development of Computational Tool for Lung Cancer Prediction Using Data MiningEditor IJCATR
The requirement for computerization of detection of lung cancer disease arises ever since recent-techniques which involve
manual-examination of the blood smear as the first step toward diagnosis. This is quite time-consuming, and their accurateness depends
upon the ability of operator's. So, prevention of lung cancer is very essential. This paper has surveyed various techniques used by previous
authors like ANN (Artificial Neural Network), image processing, LDA (Linear Dependent Analysis), SOM (Self Organizing Map) etc.
IRJET- Image Classification using Deep Learning Neural Networks for Brain...IRJET Journal
This document discusses using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify brain tumor MRI images. It begins with an introduction to brain tumors and MRI as a diagnostic tool. It then reviews related work applying deep learning to medical image classification tasks. The proposed CNN model contains convolutional and max pooling layers for feature extraction, and fully connected layers for classification. The model is trained on a dataset of 253 MRI brain images from Kaggle to classify images as containing a tumor or being tumor-free. Experimental results show the CNN achieving 98.5% accuracy in classification, demonstrating the feasibility of the approach.
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This document describes a study that used texture feature analysis and a bidirectional associative memory (BAM) type artificial neural network to segment normal and tumor tissues from brain CT images. Gray level co-occurrence matrix features were extracted from 80 CT images of normal, benign and malignant tumors. The most discriminative features were selected using t-tests and used to train the BAM network classifier to segment tissues in the images. The proposed method provided accurate segmentation of normal and tumor regions, especially small tumors, in an efficient and fast manner with less computational time compared to other methods.
This document presents a model to detect and classify brain tumors using watershed algorithm for image segmentation and convolutional neural networks (CNN). The model takes MRI images as input, pre-processes the images by converting them to grayscale and removing noise, then uses watershed algorithm for image segmentation and CNN for tumor classification. The CNN architecture achieves classification of three tumor types. Previous related works that also used deep learning methods for brain tumor detection and classification are discussed. The proposed system methodology involves inputting MRI images, pre-processing, segmentation using watershed algorithm, and classification of tumorous vs non-tumorous cells using CNN.
Automatic Diagnosis of Abnormal Tumor Region from Brain Computed Tomography I...ijcseit
The research work presented in this paper is to achieve the tissue classification and automatically
diagnosis the abnormal tumor region present in Computed Tomography (CT) images using the wavelet
based statistical texture analysis method. Comparative studies of texture analysis method are performed
for the proposed wavelet based texture analysis method and Spatial Gray Level Dependence Method
(SGLDM). Our proposed system consists of four phases i) Discrete Wavelet Decomposition (ii)
Feature extraction (iii) Feature selection (iv) Analysis of extracted texture features by classifier. A
wavelet based statistical texture feature set is derived from normal and tumor regions. Genetic Algorithm
(GA) is used to select the optimal texture features from the set of extracted texture features. We construct
the Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier and evaluate the performance of classifier by
comparing the classification results of the SVM based classifier with the Back Propagation Neural network
classifier(BPN). The results of Support Vector Machine (SVM), BPN classifiers for the texture analysis
methods are evaluated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Experimental results
show that the classification accuracy of SVM is 96% for 10 fold cross validation method. The system
has been tested with a number of real Computed Tomography brain images and has achieved satisfactory
results.
A Wavelet Based Automatic Segmentation of Brain Tumor in CT Images Using Opti...CSCJournals
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for automatically segmenting brain tumors in CT images. The method uses a combination of wavelet-based texture features extracted from discrete wavelet transformed sub-bands. These features are optimized using genetic algorithms and used to train probabilistic neural network and feedforward neural network classifiers to segment tumors. The proposed method is evaluated on brain CT images and shown to outperform existing segmentation methods.
Dilated Inception U-Net for Nuclei Segmentation in Multi-Organ Histology ImagesIRJET Journal
The document summarizes a study that used a Dilated Inception U-Net model for nuclei segmentation in histology images. Key points:
1. A Dilated Inception U-Net model was used to segment nuclei in histology images, which employs dilated convolutions to efficiently generate feature maps over a large input area.
2. The model was tested on the MoNuSeg dataset containing H&E stained images. Preprocessing included color normalization, data augmentation, and extracting 256x256 patches.
3. The Dilated Inception U-Net modifies the classic U-Net by replacing convolutional blocks with dilated inception blocks containing 1x1 and 3x3 filters with different dilation rates, allowing it to
IRJET- A Novel Segmentation Technique for MRI Brain Tumor ImagesIRJET Journal
This document summarizes several research papers on techniques for segmenting brain tumors in MRI images. It discusses challenges in brain tumor segmentation and describes various approaches that have been proposed, including methods using feature selection, kernel sparse representation, multiple kernel learning (MKL), and post-processing techniques. The document also reviews state-of-the-art segmentation, registration, and modeling methods for brain tumor images and their performance.
This document presents a new segmentation technique for brain MRI images and compares it to existing techniques. The proposed technique is a two-stage brain extraction algorithm (2D-BEA) that first removes noise and enhances brain boundaries, then uses morphological operations to extract the brain region. It is shown to accurately extract the brain from MRI images. The technique is then compared to other segmentation methods like thresholding, edge detection, fuzzy c-means clustering, and k-means clustering. The results demonstrate that the 2D-BEA technique outperforms these other methods in effectively segmenting the brain region from MRI images.
Redefining brain tumor segmentation: a cutting-edge convolutional neural netw...IJECEIAES
Medical image analysis has witnessed significant advancements with deep learning techniques. In the domain of brain tumor segmentation, the ability to
precisely delineate tumor boundaries from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scans holds profound implications for diagnosis. This study presents an ensemble convolutional neural network (CNN) with transfer learning, integrating
the state-of-the-art Deeplabv3+ architecture with the ResNet18 backbone. The
model is rigorously trained and evaluated, exhibiting remarkable performance
metrics, including an impressive global accuracy of 99.286%, a high-class accuracy of 82.191%, a mean intersection over union (IoU) of 79.900%, a weighted
IoU of 98.620%, and a Boundary F1 (BF) score of 83.303%. Notably, a detailed comparative analysis with existing methods showcases the superiority of
our proposed model. These findings underscore the model’s competence in precise brain tumor localization, underscoring its potential to revolutionize medical
image analysis and enhance healthcare outcomes. This research paves the way
for future exploration and optimization of advanced CNN models in medical
imaging, emphasizing addressing false positives and resource efficiency.
This document outlines the objectives and contributions of a research project on brain tumor segmentation. The objectives include developing Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) and Recurrent Residual Convolutional Neural Network (RRCNN) models based on U-Net, proposing a hybrid two-track U-Net to address class imbalance, and proposing a Multi Inception Residual Nested U-Net to enhance segmentation. The contributions discussed are a Hybrid Two Track U-Net (HTTU-Net) and a Multi Inception Residual Nested U-Net (MIResU-Net++) for brain tumor segmentation, which show improved performance over standard U-Net on benchmark datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
In recent years, the application of deep learning has demonstrated significant progress in various scientific subfields. Compared to other cutting-edge methods of processing and analysing images, deep learning algorithms performed significantly better. When applied in areas such as self-driving cars, where deep learning has been utilized, and the results are the best and most up-to-date currently available. In some situations, such as recognizing objects and playing games, deep learning performed significantly better than people did. One more industry that appears to have a lot to gain from deep learning is the medical field. There are a lot of patient records and data, and providing individualized care to each patient is becoming an increasingly important priority as a result. This indicates an immediate need for methods that are both efficient and reliable for processing and analyzing health informatics.
Embedded machine learning-based road conditions and driving behavior monitoringIJECEIAES
Car accident rates have increased in recent years, resulting in losses in human lives, properties, and other financial costs. An embedded machine learning-based system is developed to address this critical issue. The system can monitor road conditions, detect driving patterns, and identify aggressive driving behaviors. The system is based on neural networks trained on a comprehensive dataset of driving events, driving styles, and road conditions. The system effectively detects potential risks and helps mitigate the frequency and impact of accidents. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of drivers and vehicles. Collecting data involved gathering information on three key road events: normal street and normal drive, speed bumps, circular yellow speed bumps, and three aggressive driving actions: sudden start, sudden stop, and sudden entry. The gathered data is processed and analyzed using a machine learning system designed for limited power and memory devices. The developed system resulted in 91.9% accuracy, 93.6% precision, and 92% recall. The achieved inference time on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with a 32-bit CPU running at 64 MHz is 34 ms and requires 2.6 kB peak RAM and 139.9 kB program flash memory, making it suitable for resource-constrained embedded systems.
Advanced control scheme of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbine us...IJECEIAES
This paper describes a speed control device for generating electrical energy on an electricity network based on the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used for wind power conversion systems. At first, a double-fed induction generator model was constructed. A control law is formulated to govern the flow of energy between the stator of a DFIG and the energy network using three types of controllers: proportional integral (PI), sliding mode controller (SMC) and second order sliding mode controller (SOSMC). Their different results in terms of power reference tracking, reaction to unexpected speed fluctuations, sensitivity to perturbations, and resilience against machine parameter alterations are compared. MATLAB/Simulink was used to conduct the simulations for the preceding study. Multiple simulations have shown very satisfying results, and the investigations demonstrate the efficacy and power-enhancing capabilities of the suggested control system.
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authors like ANN (Artificial Neural Network), image processing, LDA (Linear Dependent Analysis), SOM (Self Organizing Map) etc.
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This document discusses using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify brain tumor MRI images. It begins with an introduction to brain tumors and MRI as a diagnostic tool. It then reviews related work applying deep learning to medical image classification tasks. The proposed CNN model contains convolutional and max pooling layers for feature extraction, and fully connected layers for classification. The model is trained on a dataset of 253 MRI brain images from Kaggle to classify images as containing a tumor or being tumor-free. Experimental results show the CNN achieving 98.5% accuracy in classification, demonstrating the feasibility of the approach.
11.texture feature based analysis of segmenting soft tissues from brain ct im...Alexander Decker
This document describes a study that used texture feature analysis and a bidirectional associative memory (BAM) type artificial neural network to segment normal and tumor tissues from brain CT images. Gray level co-occurrence matrix features were extracted from 80 CT images of normal, benign and malignant tumors. The most discriminative features were selected using t-tests and used to train the BAM network classifier to segment tissues in the images. The proposed method provided accurate segmentation of normal and tumor regions, especially small tumors, in an efficient and fast manner with less computational time compared to other methods.
This document presents a model to detect and classify brain tumors using watershed algorithm for image segmentation and convolutional neural networks (CNN). The model takes MRI images as input, pre-processes the images by converting them to grayscale and removing noise, then uses watershed algorithm for image segmentation and CNN for tumor classification. The CNN architecture achieves classification of three tumor types. Previous related works that also used deep learning methods for brain tumor detection and classification are discussed. The proposed system methodology involves inputting MRI images, pre-processing, segmentation using watershed algorithm, and classification of tumorous vs non-tumorous cells using CNN.
Automatic Diagnosis of Abnormal Tumor Region from Brain Computed Tomography I...ijcseit
The research work presented in this paper is to achieve the tissue classification and automatically
diagnosis the abnormal tumor region present in Computed Tomography (CT) images using the wavelet
based statistical texture analysis method. Comparative studies of texture analysis method are performed
for the proposed wavelet based texture analysis method and Spatial Gray Level Dependence Method
(SGLDM). Our proposed system consists of four phases i) Discrete Wavelet Decomposition (ii)
Feature extraction (iii) Feature selection (iv) Analysis of extracted texture features by classifier. A
wavelet based statistical texture feature set is derived from normal and tumor regions. Genetic Algorithm
(GA) is used to select the optimal texture features from the set of extracted texture features. We construct
the Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier and evaluate the performance of classifier by
comparing the classification results of the SVM based classifier with the Back Propagation Neural network
classifier(BPN). The results of Support Vector Machine (SVM), BPN classifiers for the texture analysis
methods are evaluated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Experimental results
show that the classification accuracy of SVM is 96% for 10 fold cross validation method. The system
has been tested with a number of real Computed Tomography brain images and has achieved satisfactory
results.
A Wavelet Based Automatic Segmentation of Brain Tumor in CT Images Using Opti...CSCJournals
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new method for automatically segmenting brain tumors in CT images. The method uses a combination of wavelet-based texture features extracted from discrete wavelet transformed sub-bands. These features are optimized using genetic algorithms and used to train probabilistic neural network and feedforward neural network classifiers to segment tumors. The proposed method is evaluated on brain CT images and shown to outperform existing segmentation methods.
Dilated Inception U-Net for Nuclei Segmentation in Multi-Organ Histology ImagesIRJET Journal
The document summarizes a study that used a Dilated Inception U-Net model for nuclei segmentation in histology images. Key points:
1. A Dilated Inception U-Net model was used to segment nuclei in histology images, which employs dilated convolutions to efficiently generate feature maps over a large input area.
2. The model was tested on the MoNuSeg dataset containing H&E stained images. Preprocessing included color normalization, data augmentation, and extracting 256x256 patches.
3. The Dilated Inception U-Net modifies the classic U-Net by replacing convolutional blocks with dilated inception blocks containing 1x1 and 3x3 filters with different dilation rates, allowing it to
IRJET- A Novel Segmentation Technique for MRI Brain Tumor ImagesIRJET Journal
This document summarizes several research papers on techniques for segmenting brain tumors in MRI images. It discusses challenges in brain tumor segmentation and describes various approaches that have been proposed, including methods using feature selection, kernel sparse representation, multiple kernel learning (MKL), and post-processing techniques. The document also reviews state-of-the-art segmentation, registration, and modeling methods for brain tumor images and their performance.
This document presents a new segmentation technique for brain MRI images and compares it to existing techniques. The proposed technique is a two-stage brain extraction algorithm (2D-BEA) that first removes noise and enhances brain boundaries, then uses morphological operations to extract the brain region. It is shown to accurately extract the brain from MRI images. The technique is then compared to other segmentation methods like thresholding, edge detection, fuzzy c-means clustering, and k-means clustering. The results demonstrate that the 2D-BEA technique outperforms these other methods in effectively segmenting the brain region from MRI images.
Redefining brain tumor segmentation: a cutting-edge convolutional neural netw...IJECEIAES
Medical image analysis has witnessed significant advancements with deep learning techniques. In the domain of brain tumor segmentation, the ability to
precisely delineate tumor boundaries from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scans holds profound implications for diagnosis. This study presents an ensemble convolutional neural network (CNN) with transfer learning, integrating
the state-of-the-art Deeplabv3+ architecture with the ResNet18 backbone. The
model is rigorously trained and evaluated, exhibiting remarkable performance
metrics, including an impressive global accuracy of 99.286%, a high-class accuracy of 82.191%, a mean intersection over union (IoU) of 79.900%, a weighted
IoU of 98.620%, and a Boundary F1 (BF) score of 83.303%. Notably, a detailed comparative analysis with existing methods showcases the superiority of
our proposed model. These findings underscore the model’s competence in precise brain tumor localization, underscoring its potential to revolutionize medical
image analysis and enhance healthcare outcomes. This research paves the way
for future exploration and optimization of advanced CNN models in medical
imaging, emphasizing addressing false positives and resource efficiency.
This document outlines the objectives and contributions of a research project on brain tumor segmentation. The objectives include developing Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) and Recurrent Residual Convolutional Neural Network (RRCNN) models based on U-Net, proposing a hybrid two-track U-Net to address class imbalance, and proposing a Multi Inception Residual Nested U-Net to enhance segmentation. The contributions discussed are a Hybrid Two Track U-Net (HTTU-Net) and a Multi Inception Residual Nested U-Net (MIResU-Net++) for brain tumor segmentation, which show improved performance over standard U-Net on benchmark datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
In recent years, the application of deep learning has demonstrated significant progress in various scientific subfields. Compared to other cutting-edge methods of processing and analysing images, deep learning algorithms performed significantly better. When applied in areas such as self-driving cars, where deep learning has been utilized, and the results are the best and most up-to-date currently available. In some situations, such as recognizing objects and playing games, deep learning performed significantly better than people did. One more industry that appears to have a lot to gain from deep learning is the medical field. There are a lot of patient records and data, and providing individualized care to each patient is becoming an increasingly important priority as a result. This indicates an immediate need for methods that are both efficient and reliable for processing and analyzing health informatics.
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Embedded machine learning-based road conditions and driving behavior monitoringIJECEIAES
Car accident rates have increased in recent years, resulting in losses in human lives, properties, and other financial costs. An embedded machine learning-based system is developed to address this critical issue. The system can monitor road conditions, detect driving patterns, and identify aggressive driving behaviors. The system is based on neural networks trained on a comprehensive dataset of driving events, driving styles, and road conditions. The system effectively detects potential risks and helps mitigate the frequency and impact of accidents. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of drivers and vehicles. Collecting data involved gathering information on three key road events: normal street and normal drive, speed bumps, circular yellow speed bumps, and three aggressive driving actions: sudden start, sudden stop, and sudden entry. The gathered data is processed and analyzed using a machine learning system designed for limited power and memory devices. The developed system resulted in 91.9% accuracy, 93.6% precision, and 92% recall. The achieved inference time on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with a 32-bit CPU running at 64 MHz is 34 ms and requires 2.6 kB peak RAM and 139.9 kB program flash memory, making it suitable for resource-constrained embedded systems.
Advanced control scheme of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbine us...IJECEIAES
This paper describes a speed control device for generating electrical energy on an electricity network based on the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used for wind power conversion systems. At first, a double-fed induction generator model was constructed. A control law is formulated to govern the flow of energy between the stator of a DFIG and the energy network using three types of controllers: proportional integral (PI), sliding mode controller (SMC) and second order sliding mode controller (SOSMC). Their different results in terms of power reference tracking, reaction to unexpected speed fluctuations, sensitivity to perturbations, and resilience against machine parameter alterations are compared. MATLAB/Simulink was used to conduct the simulations for the preceding study. Multiple simulations have shown very satisfying results, and the investigations demonstrate the efficacy and power-enhancing capabilities of the suggested control system.
Neural network optimizer of proportional-integral-differential controller par...IJECEIAES
Wide application of proportional-integral-differential (PID)-regulator in industry requires constant improvement of methods of its parameters adjustment. The paper deals with the issues of optimization of PID-regulator parameters with the use of neural network technology methods. A methodology for choosing the architecture (structure) of neural network optimizer is proposed, which consists in determining the number of layers, the number of neurons in each layer, as well as the form and type of activation function. Algorithms of neural network training based on the application of the method of minimizing the mismatch between the regulated value and the target value are developed. The method of back propagation of gradients is proposed to select the optimal training rate of neurons of the neural network. The neural network optimizer, which is a superstructure of the linear PID controller, allows increasing the regulation accuracy from 0.23 to 0.09, thus reducing the power consumption from 65% to 53%. The results of the conducted experiments allow us to conclude that the created neural superstructure may well become a prototype of an automatic voltage regulator (AVR)-type industrial controller for tuning the parameters of the PID controller.
An improved modulation technique suitable for a three level flying capacitor ...IJECEIAES
This research paper introduces an innovative modulation technique for controlling a 3-level flying capacitor multilevel inverter (FCMLI), aiming to streamline the modulation process in contrast to conventional methods. The proposed
simplified modulation technique paves the way for more straightforward and
efficient control of multilevel inverters, enabling their widespread adoption and
integration into modern power electronic systems. Through the amalgamation of
sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) with a high-frequency square wave
pulse, this controlling technique attains energy equilibrium across the coupling
capacitor. The modulation scheme incorporates a simplified switching pattern
and a decreased count of voltage references, thereby simplifying the control
algorithm.
A review on features and methods of potential fishing zoneIJECEIAES
This review focuses on the importance of identifying potential fishing zones in seawater for sustainable fishing practices. It explores features like sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface height (SSH), along with classification methods such as classifiers. The features like SST, SSH, and different classifiers used to classify the data, have been figured out in this review study. This study underscores the importance of examining potential fishing zones using advanced analytical techniques. It thoroughly explores the methodologies employed by researchers, covering both past and current approaches. The examination centers on data characteristics and the application of classification algorithms for classification of potential fishing zones. Furthermore, the prediction of potential fishing zones relies significantly on the effectiveness of classification algorithms. Previous research has assessed the performance of models like support vector machines, naïve Bayes, and artificial neural networks (ANN). In the previous result, the results of support vector machine (SVM) were 97.6% more accurate than naive Bayes's 94.2% to classify test data for fisheries classification. By considering the recent works in this area, several recommendations for future works are presented to further improve the performance of the potential fishing zone models, which is important to the fisheries community.
Electrical signal interference minimization using appropriate core material f...IJECEIAES
As demand for smaller, quicker, and more powerful devices rises, Moore's law is strictly followed. The industry has worked hard to make little devices that boost productivity. The goal is to optimize device density. Scientists are reducing connection delays to improve circuit performance. This helped them understand three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) concepts, which stack active devices and create vertical connections to diminish latency and lower interconnects. Electrical involvement is a big worry with 3D integrates circuits. Researchers have developed and tested through silicon via (TSV) and substrates to decrease electrical wave involvement. This study illustrates a novel noise coupling reduction method using several electrical involvement models. A 22% drop in electrical involvement from wave-carrying to victim TSVs introduces this new paradigm and improves system performance even at higher THz frequencies.
Electric vehicle and photovoltaic advanced roles in enhancing the financial p...IJECEIAES
Climate change's impact on the planet forced the United Nations and governments to promote green energies and electric transportation. The deployments of photovoltaic (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) systems gained stronger momentum due to their numerous advantages over fossil fuel types. The advantages go beyond sustainability to reach financial support and stability. The work in this paper introduces the hybrid system between PV and EV to support industrial and commercial plants. This paper covers the theoretical framework of the proposed hybrid system including the required equation to complete the cost analysis when PV and EV are present. In addition, the proposed design diagram which sets the priorities and requirements of the system is presented. The proposed approach allows setup to advance their power stability, especially during power outages. The presented information supports researchers and plant owners to complete the necessary analysis while promoting the deployment of clean energy. The result of a case study that represents a dairy milk farmer supports the theoretical works and highlights its advanced benefits to existing plants. The short return on investment of the proposed approach supports the paper's novelty approach for the sustainable electrical system. In addition, the proposed system allows for an isolated power setup without the need for a transmission line which enhances the safety of the electrical network
Bibliometric analysis highlighting the role of women in addressing climate ch...IJECEIAES
Fossil fuel consumption increased quickly, contributing to climate change
that is evident in unusual flooding and draughts, and global warming. Over
the past ten years, women's involvement in society has grown dramatically,
and they succeeded in playing a noticeable role in reducing climate change.
A bibliometric analysis of data from the last ten years has been carried out to
examine the role of women in addressing the climate change. The analysis's
findings discussed the relevant to the sustainable development goals (SDGs),
particularly SDG 7 and SDG 13. The results considered contributions made
by women in the various sectors while taking geographic dispersion into
account. The bibliometric analysis delves into topics including women's
leadership in environmental groups, their involvement in policymaking, their
contributions to sustainable development projects, and the influence of
gender diversity on attempts to mitigate climate change. This study's results
highlight how women have influenced policies and actions related to climate
change, point out areas of research deficiency and recommendations on how
to increase role of the women in addressing the climate change and
achieving sustainability. To achieve more successful results, this initiative
aims to highlight the significance of gender equality and encourage
inclusivity in climate change decision-making processes.
Voltage and frequency control of microgrid in presence of micro-turbine inter...IJECEIAES
The active and reactive load changes have a significant impact on voltage
and frequency. In this paper, in order to stabilize the microgrid (MG) against
load variations in islanding mode, the active and reactive power of all
distributed generators (DGs), including energy storage (battery), diesel
generator, and micro-turbine, are controlled. The micro-turbine generator is
connected to MG through a three-phase to three-phase matrix converter, and
the droop control method is applied for controlling the voltage and
frequency of MG. In addition, a method is introduced for voltage and
frequency control of micro-turbines in the transition state from gridconnected mode to islanding mode. A novel switching strategy of the matrix
converter is used for converting the high-frequency output voltage of the
micro-turbine to the grid-side frequency of the utility system. Moreover,
using the switching strategy, the low-order harmonics in the output current
and voltage are not produced, and consequently, the size of the output filter
would be reduced. In fact, the suggested control strategy is load-independent
and has no frequency conversion restrictions. The proposed approach for
voltage and frequency regulation demonstrates exceptional performance and
favorable response across various load alteration scenarios. The suggested
strategy is examined in several scenarios in the MG test systems, and the
simulation results are addressed.
Enhancing battery system identification: nonlinear autoregressive modeling fo...IJECEIAES
Precisely characterizing Li-ion batteries is essential for optimizing their
performance, enhancing safety, and prolonging their lifespan across various
applications, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. This
article introduces an innovative nonlinear methodology for system
identification of a Li-ion battery, employing a nonlinear autoregressive with
exogenous inputs (NARX) model. The proposed approach integrates the
benefits of nonlinear modeling with the adaptability of the NARX structure,
facilitating a more comprehensive representation of the intricate
electrochemical processes within the battery. Experimental data collected
from a Li-ion battery operating under diverse scenarios are employed to
validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The identified
NARX model exhibits superior accuracy in predicting the battery's behavior
compared to traditional linear models. This study underscores the
importance of accounting for nonlinearities in battery modeling, providing
insights into the intricate relationships between state-of-charge, voltage, and
current under dynamic conditions.
Smart grid deployment: from a bibliometric analysis to a surveyIJECEIAES
Smart grids are one of the last decades' innovations in electrical energy.
They bring relevant advantages compared to the traditional grid and
significant interest from the research community. Assessing the field's
evolution is essential to propose guidelines for facing new and future smart
grid challenges. In addition, knowing the main technologies involved in the
deployment of smart grids (SGs) is important to highlight possible
shortcomings that can be mitigated by developing new tools. This paper
contributes to the research trends mentioned above by focusing on two
objectives. First, a bibliometric analysis is presented to give an overview of
the current research level about smart grid deployment. Second, a survey of
the main technological approaches used for smart grid implementation and
their contributions are highlighted. To that effect, we searched the Web of
Science (WoS), and the Scopus databases. We obtained 5,663 documents
from WoS and 7,215 from Scopus on smart grid implementation or
deployment. With the extraction limitation in the Scopus database, 5,872 of
the 7,215 documents were extracted using a multi-step process. These two
datasets have been analyzed using a bibliometric tool called bibliometrix.
The main outputs are presented with some recommendations for future
research.
Use of analytical hierarchy process for selecting and prioritizing islanding ...IJECEIAES
One of the problems that are associated to power systems is islanding
condition, which must be rapidly and properly detected to prevent any
negative consequences on the system's protection, stability, and security.
This paper offers a thorough overview of several islanding detection
strategies, which are divided into two categories: classic approaches,
including local and remote approaches, and modern techniques, including
techniques based on signal processing and computational intelligence.
Additionally, each approach is compared and assessed based on several
factors, including implementation costs, non-detected zones, declining
power quality, and response times using the analytical hierarchy process
(AHP). The multi-criteria decision-making analysis shows that the overall
weight of passive methods (24.7%), active methods (7.8%), hybrid methods
(5.6%), remote methods (14.5%), signal processing-based methods (26.6%),
and computational intelligent-based methods (20.8%) based on the
comparison of all criteria together. Thus, it can be seen from the total weight
that hybrid approaches are the least suitable to be chosen, while signal
processing-based methods are the most appropriate islanding detection
method to be selected and implemented in power system with respect to the
aforementioned factors. Using Expert Choice software, the proposed
hierarchy model is studied and examined.
Enhancing of single-stage grid-connected photovoltaic system using fuzzy logi...IJECEIAES
The power generated by photovoltaic (PV) systems is influenced by
environmental factors. This variability hampers the control and utilization of
solar cells' peak output. In this study, a single-stage grid-connected PV
system is designed to enhance power quality. Our approach employs fuzzy
logic in the direct power control (DPC) of a three-phase voltage source
inverter (VSI), enabling seamless integration of the PV connected to the
grid. Additionally, a fuzzy logic-based maximum power point tracking
(MPPT) controller is adopted, which outperforms traditional methods like
incremental conductance (INC) in enhancing solar cell efficiency and
minimizing the response time. Moreover, the inverter's real-time active and
reactive power is directly managed to achieve a unity power factor (UPF).
The system's performance is assessed through MATLAB/Simulink
implementation, showing marked improvement over conventional methods,
particularly in steady-state and varying weather conditions. For solar
irradiances of 500 and 1,000 W/m2
, the results show that the proposed
method reduces the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the injected current
to the grid by approximately 46% and 38% compared to conventional
methods, respectively. Furthermore, we compare the simulation results with
IEEE standards to evaluate the system's grid compatibility.
Enhancing photovoltaic system maximum power point tracking with fuzzy logic-b...IJECEIAES
Photovoltaic systems have emerged as a promising energy resource that
caters to the future needs of society, owing to their renewable, inexhaustible,
and cost-free nature. The power output of these systems relies on solar cell
radiation and temperature. In order to mitigate the dependence on
atmospheric conditions and enhance power tracking, a conventional
approach has been improved by integrating various methods. To optimize
the generation of electricity from solar systems, the maximum power point
tracking (MPPT) technique is employed. To overcome limitations such as
steady-state voltage oscillations and improve transient response, two
traditional MPPT methods, namely fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and perturb
and observe (P&O), have been modified. This research paper aims to
simulate and validate the step size of the proposed modified P&O and FLC
techniques within the MPPT algorithm using MATLAB/Simulink for
efficient power tracking in photovoltaic systems.
Adaptive synchronous sliding control for a robot manipulator based on neural ...IJECEIAES
Robot manipulators have become important equipment in production lines, medical fields, and transportation. Improving the quality of trajectory tracking for
robot hands is always an attractive topic in the research community. This is a
challenging problem because robot manipulators are complex nonlinear systems
and are often subject to fluctuations in loads and external disturbances. This
article proposes an adaptive synchronous sliding control scheme to improve trajectory tracking performance for a robot manipulator. The proposed controller
ensures that the positions of the joints track the desired trajectory, synchronize
the errors, and significantly reduces chattering. First, the synchronous tracking
errors and synchronous sliding surfaces are presented. Second, the synchronous
tracking error dynamics are determined. Third, a robust adaptive control law is
designed,the unknown components of the model are estimated online by the neural network, and the parameters of the switching elements are selected by fuzzy
logic. The built algorithm ensures that the tracking and approximation errors
are ultimately uniformly bounded (UUB). Finally, the effectiveness of the constructed algorithm is demonstrated through simulation and experimental results.
Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed controller is effective with small synchronous tracking errors, and the chattering phenomenon is
significantly reduced.
Remote field-programmable gate array laboratory for signal acquisition and de...IJECEIAES
A remote laboratory utilizing field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies enhances students’ learning experience anywhere and anytime in embedded system design. Existing remote laboratories prioritize hardware access and visual feedback for observing board behavior after programming, neglecting comprehensive debugging tools to resolve errors that require internal signal acquisition. This paper proposes a novel remote embeddedsystem design approach targeting FPGA technologies that are fully interactive via a web-based platform. Our solution provides FPGA board access and debugging capabilities beyond the visual feedback provided by existing remote laboratories. We implemented a lab module that allows users to seamlessly incorporate into their FPGA design. The module minimizes hardware resource utilization while enabling the acquisition of a large number of data samples from the signal during the experiments by adaptively compressing the signal prior to data transmission. The results demonstrate an average compression ratio of 2.90 across three benchmark signals, indicating efficient signal acquisition and effective debugging and analysis. This method allows users to acquire more data samples than conventional methods. The proposed lab allows students to remotely test and debug their designs, bridging the gap between theory and practice in embedded system design.
Detecting and resolving feature envy through automated machine learning and m...IJECEIAES
Efficiently identifying and resolving code smells enhances software project quality. This paper presents a novel solution, utilizing automated machine learning (AutoML) techniques, to detect code smells and apply move method refactoring. By evaluating code metrics before and after refactoring, we assessed its impact on coupling, complexity, and cohesion. Key contributions of this research include a unique dataset for code smell classification and the development of models using AutoGluon for optimal performance. Furthermore, the study identifies the top 20 influential features in classifying feature envy, a well-known code smell, stemming from excessive reliance on external classes. We also explored how move method refactoring addresses feature envy, revealing reduced coupling and complexity, and improved cohesion, ultimately enhancing code quality. In summary, this research offers an empirical, data-driven approach, integrating AutoML and move method refactoring to optimize software project quality. Insights gained shed light on the benefits of refactoring on code quality and the significance of specific features in detecting feature envy. Future research can expand to explore additional refactoring techniques and a broader range of code metrics, advancing software engineering practices and standards.
Smart monitoring technique for solar cell systems using internet of things ba...IJECEIAES
Rapidly and remotely monitoring and receiving the solar cell systems status parameters, solar irradiance, temperature, and humidity, are critical issues in enhancement their efficiency. Hence, in the present article an improved smart prototype of internet of things (IoT) technique based on embedded system through NodeMCU ESP8266 (ESP-12E) was carried out experimentally. Three different regions at Egypt; Luxor, Cairo, and El-Beheira cities were chosen to study their solar irradiance profile, temperature, and humidity by the proposed IoT system. The monitoring data of solar irradiance, temperature, and humidity were live visualized directly by Ubidots through hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) protocol. The measured solar power radiation in Luxor, Cairo, and El-Beheira ranged between 216-1000, 245-958, and 187-692 W/m 2 respectively during the solar day. The accuracy and rapidity of obtaining monitoring results using the proposed IoT system made it a strong candidate for application in monitoring solar cell systems. On the other hand, the obtained solar power radiation results of the three considered regions strongly candidate Luxor and Cairo as suitable places to build up a solar cells system station rather than El-Beheira.
An efficient security framework for intrusion detection and prevention in int...IJECEIAES
Over the past few years, the internet of things (IoT) has advanced to connect billions of smart devices to improve quality of life. However, anomalies or malicious intrusions pose several security loopholes, leading to performance degradation and threat to data security in IoT operations. Thereby, IoT security systems must keep an eye on and restrict unwanted events from occurring in the IoT network. Recently, various technical solutions based on machine learning (ML) models have been derived towards identifying and restricting unwanted events in IoT. However, most ML-based approaches are prone to miss-classification due to inappropriate feature selection. Additionally, most ML approaches applied to intrusion detection and prevention consider supervised learning, which requires a large amount of labeled data to be trained. Consequently, such complex datasets are impossible to source in a large network like IoT. To address this problem, this proposed study introduces an efficient learning mechanism to strengthen the IoT security aspects. The proposed algorithm incorporates supervised and unsupervised approaches to improve the learning models for intrusion detection and mitigation. Compared with the related works, the experimental outcome shows that the model performs well in a benchmark dataset. It accomplishes an improved detection accuracy of approximately 99.21%.
Developing a smart system for infant incubators using the internet of things ...IJECEIAES
This research is developing an incubator system that integrates the internet of things and artificial intelligence to improve care for premature babies. The system workflow starts with sensors that collect data from the incubator. Then, the data is sent in real-time to the internet of things (IoT) broker eclipse mosquito using the message queue telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol version 5.0. After that, the data is stored in a database for analysis using the long short-term memory network (LSTM) method and displayed in a web application using an application programming interface (API) service. Furthermore, the experimental results produce as many as 2,880 rows of data stored in the database. The correlation coefficient between the target attribute and other attributes ranges from 0.23 to 0.48. Next, several experiments were conducted to evaluate the model-predicted value on the test data. The best results are obtained using a two-layer LSTM configuration model, each with 60 neurons and a lookback setting 6. This model produces an R 2 value of 0.934, with a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 0.015 and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.008. In addition, the R 2 value was also evaluated for each attribute used as input, with a result of values between 0.590 and 0.845.
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Overview of convolutional neural networks architectures for brain tumor segmentation
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Overview of convolutional neural networks architectures for
brain tumor segmentation
Ahmad Al-Shboul1
, Maha Gharibeh2
, Hassan Najadat3
, Mostafa Ali3
, Mwaffaq El-Heis2
1
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, Jordan University of Science and Technology,
Irbid, Jordan
2
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology,
Irbid, Jordan
3
Department of Computer Information System, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Jun 1, 2022
Revised Oct 29, 2022
Accepted Nov 6, 2022
Due to the paramount importance of the medical field in the lives of people,
researchers and experts exploited advancements in computer techniques to
solve many diagnostic and analytical medical problems. Brain tumor
diagnosis is one of the most important computational problems that has been
studied and focused on. The brain tumor is determined by segmentation of
brain images using many techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI). Brain tumor segmentation methods have been developed since a long
time and are still evolving, but the current trend is to use deep convolutional
neural networks (CNNs) due to its many breakthroughs and unprecedented
results that have been achieved in various applications and their capacity to
learn a hierarchy of progressively complicated characteristics from input
without requiring manual feature extraction. Considering these
unprecedented results, we present this paper as a brief review for main
CNNs architecture types used in brain tumor segmentation. Specifically, we
focus on researcher works that used the well-known brain tumor
segmentation (BraTS) dataset.
Keywords:
Artificial neural networks
Brain tumor segmentation
Convolutional neural networks
Deep learning
Magnetic resonance imaging
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Hassan Najadat
Department of Computer Information System, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, Jordan
University of Science and Technology
Irbid, Jordan
Email: najadat@just.edu.jo
1. INTRODUCTION
Medical imaging analysis has been widely used in medical diagnosis and remediation, such as
diagnoses using computer-assisted methods, management of information from medical record, robotic
medical devices and image-based applications [1]. Images provide a mechanism to unveil internal organs and
discovering several diseases, where many types of imaging technologies are used for various medical
purposes. Brain tumor segmentation is a medical problem that affects people’s lives because of the moral and
material effects it has on society.
The biopsy is considered as a standard mechanism that is used for tumor diagnosis, but it is a
lengthy process and invasive that it may cause bleedings or injuries causing functionality loss for the brain
[2]. Consequently, using non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be a safer and better tool
specifically if accurate and robust approaches are being used for the segmentation. Many MRI procedures
can be performed such as MRI for showing different organs, MRI that study the organs functions, diffusion-
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weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) where every procedure is employed for a
certain specific task. Since the structural MRI visualizes wholesome brain tissues and depicts gross brain
structure, vascularity system, radiation-induced microhaemorrhage and calcification, so it is proper to be used
by brain tumor segmentation methods to identify aberrant from normal tissue. The structural MRI sequences
incorporate T1-w, T2-w, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), and contrast-enhanced T1-w [3].
Manual brain tumor segmentation problem is a slow process, prone to inter rater variability and
tedious work because for every patient the MRI scan generates a large number of slices that must be
delineated. Also, the different types of artifacts in images result in low quality images that prohibit specialists
from the correct and accurate interpretation and diagnosis. So, researchers developed many methods to
automate the process of brain tumor segmentation like region-based segmentation, supervised machine
learning-based algorithms for brain tumor segmentation and deep learning-based methods for tumor
segmentation [4].
During the past few years, deep learning techniques were the state-of-the-art methods with eminent
results, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Many surveys have been published regarding
deep learning methods in the medical field and brain tumor segmentation, but we noticed that there is not a
specific study for CNNs based brain tumor segmentation methods. The closest paper to ours was presented
by Bernal et al. [5].
Bernal et al. [5] presented a review that focused on the usage of deep CNNs for brain image
analysis. Their work is an extended survey paper that concentrated on CNN techniques which were utilized
in brain analysis using MRI focusing on their architectures. Dedicated preprocessing steps, data-preparation
and post-processing techniques are also included in their work. As mentioned in [6], a brief is introduced a
bout medical image analysis.
Akkus et al. [7] also presented a detailed survey that mentioned many well-known datasets,
preprocessing steps and the styles of training deep learning architectures for brain tumor segmentation.
Magadza and Viriri [8] also plainly clarified the building blocks of the deep learning methodologies that were
considered as state-of-the-art in the task of segmenting tumors from the brain. This survey focused on the
works that used CNNs variants in the field of brain tumor segmentation along with the datasets used and the
results which were obtained. Magadza and Viriri [8] particularly focused on the best performing applied
methods on BraTS dataset for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019. Section two presents architectural details
about main CNNs components.
2. CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS
CNNs are special feedforward neural networks specified to process data pixels. This type of
network deals with grid-like data such as time series and images data [9]. The main layer in the CNN
architecture that distinguishes it from other types of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is the persistence of
the convolution layer, hence the name of this type of the network. The general architecture is mainly
composed of three building block layers including convolution layer, pooling layer, and connected layer.
Figure 1 illustrates the general architecture of the CNN network. CNN models increasingly learn the
features within data, such that the lower-level layers begin to learn small local patterns, whereas the higher-
level layers learn larger patterns (shapes) synthesized of features from the previous layers and so forth. This
ability makes them maximal choice for image analysis and different processing tasks than other usual ANNs.
Brain tumor segmentation from MR images can greatly benefit from CNNs [8].
2.1. Convolution layer
In this layer, the image is convolved with many two-dimensional (2D) or sometimes three-
dimensional (3D) filters (kernels), this can be determined according to the input dimensions to make
automatic feature extraction. For example, the filter may have the form of (3×3) or (3×3×3) dimensions.
Since the filter convolution against the images allows weight sharing, it reduces the model complexity.
Filters are spatially small patches (windows) that are moved to every possible position on the input matrix
(image) to extract the specific types of features, so convolutions in CNNs can be looked as feature extractor.
The result of the convolution operation (element-wise multiplication) is a feature map which is fed
to the next layer. Also, one main component of CNNs is the activation function that is used to fire the output
of layer neuron, sometimes called (transfer function), it adds nonlinearity to the network. Rectified linear unit
(ReLU) is a well-known and commonly used activation function which replaces the negative output values to
zero.
Figure 2 illustrates the convolution operation. As noted in Figure 2, the convolution operation has
two parameters: the first is the window size which is the step in which the window moves through the image
being sub-sampled, it is 3×3 in this example and the second parameter is the stride which is the transition
step for the window, it is 1 in this example. In the context of improving the performance of CNNs, many
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enhancements were performed in the literature where conventional convolutional layers were replaced with
blocks that rise the network’s capability. For example, Szegedy et al. [10] introduced the inception block that
aided in capturing the sparse correlation patterns. Another notable improvement was the residual block which
was presented by He et al. [11]. It facilitated the building of very deep networks that overcome the problem
of vanishing gradient. Also squeeze-and-excitation (SE) block was introduced by Hu et al. [12] which
enabled capturing the inter-dependencies between the generated feature maps of the network.
Figure 1. Convolutional neural network architecture
Figure 2. Convolution operation
2.2. Pooling layer
A pooling layer typically follows a convolutional layer or many consecutive existing convolutional
layers in the model. Pooling layers are usually added between two convolution layers. The pooling layer aims
to minify the spatial size dimensionality of feature map representation. Feature map passes through the
pooling layer to generate pooled (compressed) feature map or activation map. Many pooling operations can
be used in the pooling layer, the most common are the max pooling and the average pooling. The maximum
value is returned by max pooling when applying the window filter while the average pooling returns the
average of the values covered by the filter. Max pooling is illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Max pooling operation
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2.3. Fully connected layer (FC)
After convolution and pooling of the input data, the resultant output must be flattened and fed into a
regular artificial neural network layer (fully connected layer) where every layer neuron is connected with
every neuron in the preceding layer. There may be more than one dense or fully connected layer (FC), but the
last one (output layer) must contain many neurons equal to the number of classes in the data for the
prediction. It computes the class probability scores and determines input data affiliation to which class.
Additionally, different layers are added to prevent the problem of overfitting, such as dropout layers and
normalization layer that keeps the mean close to 0 and the standard deviation close to 1 for the output. This
layer will hence accelerate training [13].
The main problem with using FC layers is the needing for extravagant number of parameters
comparatively to other types of layers, which will decrease the efficiency of the network and increase the
network computational cost. Another problem with using FC layers is the necessity for a unified size for an
input image. As a good solution to this problem, Shelhamer et al. [14] proposed replacing FC layers by 1×1
convolutional layers, this will transform the network to be a fully convolutional network (FCN). By this
modification, the network has the capability to receive arbitrary sizes of the inputs and produces
classification maps.
3. CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS VARIANTS
Designing effective modules and network architectures have become one of the important factors
for achieving accurate segmentation performance [1]. So different updates in CNNs architecture have been
innovated, these improvements comprise the optimization of parameters, regularizing the network, reforming
network structure. It was obviously noticed that the essential reason for increasing the performance of CNN
comes from restructuring of processing units and the designing of new blocks [15]. So many variants of
CNNs were utilized by researchers for brain tumor segmentation. According to the characteristics of network
structures, this paper divides CNNs for brain tumor segmentation into single/multiple path networks. In the
next subsections, these types will be elaborated with many examples from the literature.
3.1. Single/multiple path networks
Single and multiple path networks are used to extract features and classify the center pixels of the
input patch, which is a part of the image. In single path networks, data stream happens from the input layer to
the classification layer through a single path. Pereira et al. [16] proposed a fully automatic brain tumor
segmentation based on CNN with kernels of 3×3 and used the ReLU as an activation function. The
architecture of their CNN consisted of 11 layers. They used normalization as a preprocessing step and data
augmentation (rotation) in their method, which were effective for brain tumor segmentation in MRI as they
stated in their work. The method was performed using the BraTS dataset for training and validation and
achieved the first position for the complete, core and enhancing regions in the dice similarity coefficient
(DSC) metric with 88%, 83%, and 77% respectively for the challenge 2013 dataset. They also took place in
the on-site BraTS 2015 competition using the same suggested model achieving the rank two with a DSC
metric of 78%, 65%, and 75% for the complete, core and enhancing regions, respectively. The data
comprised four sequences for every patient: T1, T1c, T2 and FLAIR. In comparison to single path networks,
existence of several paths for the networks can elicit various features from these paths with multiple scales. A
large-scale path (path with a large kernel size or input) allows CNN to learn global features, while small scale
paths (paths with a small kernel size or input) allow CNN to learn features known as local features or
descriptors. The usage of bigger sizes of kernels produces global features which tend to supply global
informative view for example: tumor location, size and shape, while local features present more descriptive
details such as tumor texture and boundary.
Zikic et al. [17] investigated deep learning CNN in the segmentation of brain tumor tissues. Their
work was inspired and motivated by the good results achieved by Krizhevsky who used CNNs for object
recognition on 2D images of the LSVRC-2010 ImageNet. For each point to be segmented, they used
information from the surrounding patch. The CNN was trained to make a class prediction for the central
patch point x. They used a standard CNN that contains just 5 layers and stochastic gradient descent with
momentum (SGD) to perform the segmentation on the BraTS dataset of four sequences T1, T2, T1c and
FLAIR. They stated that preliminary results indicate that even the unoptimized CNN architecture is capable
of achieving acceptable segmentation results.
The work of Havaei et al. [18] is one of the early multipath CNNs. They proposed a CNN that was
utilized to exploit simultaneously local features and global contextual features, and uses a fully convolutional
final layer instead of fully connected layer hence decreases network complexity and increases the speed of
training. Two types of architectures were explored in their work. The first is Two-pathway architecture in
which there are two paths, one with 7×7 receptive fields and another with larger 13×13 receptive fields.
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Havaei et al. [18] called these paths as local pathway and global pathway, this allowed the pixel
label classification to be affected by the region around the pixel and also with larger context where the patch
in the brain. The feature maps of both paths then were concatenated to be the input for the final layer for
classification. Tow-pathway architecture achieved a DSC accuracy 85%, 78%, 73% for complete, core,
enhancing tumor regions, respectively with dataset BraTS 2013. The second type of architectures used by
Havaei is Cascaded architectures that aimed to model the direct dependencies between the close labels that
have adjacency. The authors suggested and explored three cascaded architectures versions namely, input
concatenation (InputCascadeCNN), Local pathway concatenation (LocalCascadeCNN), Pre-out
concatenation (MFCascadeCNN). The best version was Input concatenation (InputCascadeCNN) which
achieved DSC accuracy 88%, 79%, 73% for complete tumor region, core tumor region, enhancing tumor
region, respectively.
Rao et al. [19] also used CNN to segment tumors from a large dataset of brain tumor MR images
supplied by BraTS 2015. They used four sequences of T1, T2, T1c and FLAIR. Every sequence was trained
by a CNN architecture and the output of each CNN version was taken as the representation for that sequence.
Then, these representations were concatenated to be the input to a random classifier, which achieved an
accuracy of 67%. Iqbal et al. [20] presented deep learning models utilizing long-short-term memory (LSTM)
and CNN to exact brain tumor delineation (segmentation) from benchmark medical images. LSTM and
ConvNet were trained on the same data and then merged to get an ensemble method for more improvement.
The authors used BraTS 2015 which contains (274 subject data) for four modalities: T1, T1c, T2 and FLAIR.
The authors divided the 3D data into ratios of 60:20:20 for training, evaluation and testing respectively and
converted them to 2D images (slices) then extracted patches of size 25×25. The authors tried to solve the
problem of class imbalance by using some methods such as weight-based balancing. Experiments showed the
usefulness of using LSTM in segmentation. The DSC obtained was 82%, 79% and 77% for complete tumor
region, core tumor region and enhancing tumor region respectively.
Hoseini et al. [21] proposed the so-called AdaptAhead as new optimization algorithm for CNN
learning. It is based on merging of two optimization algorithms: Nesterov and RMSProp. The proposed
model had eight layers and used 3×3 filters. The data was used from BraTS 2015 and BraTS 2016. When
comparing the results of their introduced optimization algorithm against some existing related works for
tumor segmentation from MRI, they found that their algorithm is more accurate about the metric of DSC, as
they obtained 89% and 85% in BraTS 2015 and BraTS 2016, respectively.
Zhao et al. [22] suggested a novelty paradigm for brain tumor segmentation by the integration of
fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) with conditional random fields (CRFs) into a single conjoined
framework. FCNNs are used to train data in a 2D patch-wise way and CRF-RNNs are used to train 2D image
slices. Through the integration of them as one network, the model achieved 84%, 73% and 62% for the
complete tumor region, core tumor region and enhancing tumor region, respectively. Experiments were
performed on BraTS 2013 dataset.
Liu et al. [23] presented a novel two-task approach for the segmentation of brainstem tumors and to
make a prediction for the genotype (H3 K27M) mutation status based on 3D magnetic resonance (MR)
images. They proposed and trained a 3D multiscale CNN model with 55 manually labeled patient datasets of
the T1c sequence. Their proposed network consists of two components: the first is a multiscale feature fusion
convolutional network that aims to obtain the tumor mask from input images and the second component is
the H3 K27M-mutation-status-prediction network which is a CNN to extract features from the tumor mask
and then using a SVM classifier to gain high accuracy prediction for the genotype. The experiment results of
their two-task proposed method gave a DSC of 77% in the task of brainstem segmentation and accuracy of
96% in genotype prediction.
Razzak et al. [24] described a Two-PathwayGroup CNN architecture for brain tumor segmentation
where local features and global contextual features were exploited simultaneously. The applied filters
performed and exploited many transformations like translation, rotations and reflections processes.
Experiments were performed on BraTS2015, the results obtained were 89.2%, 79.1%, and 75.1% for
complete tumor region, core tumor region and enhancing tumor region, respectively. Also, Cui et al. [25]
presented a fully automatic segmentation method from MRI data, based on cascaded CNN. The method
aimed to localize the tumor region and then accurately segment the intratumor structure by using two
subnetworks: a tumor localization network (TLN) and an intratumor classification net-work (ITCN). The
TLN subnet was used to localize the brain tumor and then, the ITCN subnet was applied for further
classification of tumor sub-regions. The BraTS 2015 dataset of 274 patients was used for training and testing
their method and four sequences for the images T1, T1c, T2 and FLAIR were used. This method gained DSC
of 90%, 81%, 81% for the complete tumor, core tumor, enhancing tumor regions, respectively.
Naceur et al. [26] suggested end-to-end deep CNN architectures for fully automated brain tumor
segmentation. Their three architectures which follow incremental approach in their building differ from the
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usual CNN-based models which use a trial-and-error technique to find the optimal hyper-parameters. Instead,
a new training strategy was proposed that consider the most influential hyper-parameters where a roof setting
was bounded over these hyper-parameters to speed up the training process. The main concept behind the
incremental deep CNN strategy is to add a new block at the end of each training phase (a block is composed
of several convolutions and pooling layers). So, creating a CNN model to give a high prediction performance
at the same time as designing a network architecture that is optimized in terms of layers. Three models of
CNN were utilized, the results of their models were competitive in terms of DSC metric on the public dataset
BraTS 2017. In terms of DSC metric, the authors obtained 88%, 87% and 89% for the three models that were
used in discovering the whole tumor.
Wang et al. [27] proposed a cascade of many CNNs to perform segmentation with hierarchical sub-
regions from MR images and introduced a 2.5D network that is a trade-off between consumption of memory
and complexity of the model. Three networks (WNet, TNet, and ENet) were used to segment the whole, core
and enhanced tumor core structures, respectively. The pipeline work for this approach consists of three
stages. First, segment the whole tumor from the image, then the input is being cropped with respect to the
bounding box of the segmented whole tumor. Second, the tumor core is segmented by TNet from the cropped
image region, and the image is cropped again with respect to the bounding box of the segmented core region.
Eventually, ENet used to segment the enhancing core from the second cropped image. The proposed method
was validated with 3D BraTS 2017 and BraTS 2018. The average DSC achieved by their method for
enhancing tumor core, whole tumor and tumor core was 78.6%, 90.5% and 83.8%, respectively with BraTS
2017 and the average DSC achieved for desired enhancing, whole and core was 73.4%, 86.4% and 76.6%,
respectively with BraTS 2018.
3.2. Encoder-decoder architecture
This is also one of the most used CNNs variants in brain tumor segmentation. This network usually
divided into a contracting path well-known as (encoder) and an expanding path well-known as (decoder), this
what cause the architecture to be a u-shaped [1], [8]. The contracting path (part) consists of the frequent
implementation of many convolutional layers followed by the activation function ReLU and max-pooling
layer such that a reduction in spacial information is performed and the feature information is enlarged. The
expansive path consists of a sequence of many corresponding up-sampling operations merged with different
features taken from encoder part through the usage of skip connections. Getting a high accuracy of mapping
from the patch level to the category label is difficult because of effect of input patch size and quality. Also,
the mapping is mostly directed by the last fully connected layer. So, FCN and encoder-decoder CNNs solve
and overcome these problems by establishing an end-to-end fashion from the input image to the output
segmentation map.
Kao et al. [28] presented a technique that integrates location information with neural networks by
using the brain parcellation atlas found in the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and mapping this atlas
to the individual subject data. They integrated the atlas with MR image data and used patches to enhance the
brain tumor segmentation. Two different CNN architectures were used, DeepMedic and 3D U-Net. They are
frequently used for image segmentation. They used data from four modalities (T1, T1c, T2, and FLAIR) from
BraTS 2017 and BraTS 2018 datasets with using normalization. To clarify the advantage of their proposed
location fusion strategy, they performed several experiments that showed improvements in brain tumor
segmentation performance. Their measures were DSC and Hausdorff distance. Wang et al. [29] segmented
brain tumor into different regions by using cascaded fully CNNs. They converted the tumor segmentation
process into three sequential binary segmentation stages. First, they segmented whole tumor and then used
the result to segment the tumor core and finally, the enhancing core was segmented from the tumor core
result. First experiment was conducted on BraTS 2017 validation dataset with Dice scores of.78%, 90%, 83%
for enhancing core, whole tumor and tumor core, respectively. The second experiment was conducted on
BraTS 2017 testing dataset with Dice scores of 785%, 90%, 83% for enhancing core, whole tumor and tumor
core, respectively. The corresponding values for BraTS 2017 testing set were 78%, 87% and 77%,
respectively. A modified version of U-Net for segmenting tumors was used by Isensee et al. [30], a dice loss
function was used and substantial data augmentation was performed to restrain overfitting. They achieved
very good DSCs on the testing part of BraTS 2017: 85.8% for whole, 77.5% for core, and 64.7% for
enhancing tumor regions
Sun et al. [31] presented a deep learning-based pipeline for brain tumor segmentation and prediction
of survivability for glioma patients using MRI scans. They used an ensemble of three deep CNN
architectures for tumor segmentation. The first network they used was cascaded anisotropic convolutional
neural network (CA-CNN) which was presented previously by Wang et al. [29]. The second employed
network was DFKZ Net, which was suggested by Isensee et al. [30] of the German Cancer Research Center
(DFKZ). The third network used was the well-known U-Net which is a classical network for segmenting
biomedical images tasks. After they obtained the results of segmentation, they extracted features from
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different tumor sub-regions and used a random forest regression model to predict the survivability. The
BraTS 2018 dataset was used in this work including the modalities T1, T1c, T2 and FLAIR. By using the
ensemble method, the approach achieved an average DSC of 77%, 90%, 85% for enhancing tumor, whole
tumor, core tumor regions, respectively.
Wang et al. [32] presented the nested dilation networks (NDNs) as 3-dimensional multimodal
segmentation method which is a modification of U-Net architecture. To enrich the low-level features,
residual blocks nested with dilations (RnD) were used in the contracting part while SE blocks were used in
both the encoding and decoding paths to boost significant features. SE blocks allow enhancing the features
representations derived by a convolutional network, while RnD can enlarge the receptive fields without
reducing the resolution or increasing the number of parameters. Their method obtained DSC results of
66.5%, 58.8% and 66.8% for edema, non-enhancing and enhancing tumors, respectively.
Li et al. [33] used a modification of the U-Net architecture. They utilized an end-to-end cascaded
pipeline for segmentation task. They used to skip up connections between the encoding path and the
decoding path in order to improve information flow, and an inception module was adopted in each block to
help their network pick up richer information representations. The experiments were conducted on 2D slices
of four sequences: T1, T1c, T2 and FLAIR of BraTS 2015. Their cascaded end-to-end method achieved DSC
performances of 84.5%, 69.8% and 60.0% for the complete tumor region, core tumor region and enhancing
tumor region, respectively.
Jiang et al. [34] participated in segmentation task of BraTS 2019 contest. BraTS consisted of
335 patients as a training set. By using a two-stage cascaded 3D U-Net to segment the substructures of brain
tumors, they were the first-class winners in the challenge among more than 70 teams participated in the
contest. Very good results in the terms of DSC were obtained on the testing data of BraTS 2019, which
comprises 125 patient cases. Intensity normalization and three types of augmentation were performed on the
data during the preprocessing step. The DSC for their method was 88.7%, 83.6%, and 83.2% for the whole,
core and enhancing tumor regions, respectively.
In another work, Kao et al. [35] used a methodology to make integration between the existing brain
parcellation atlas in the MNI152 into each subject in the dataset. The experiments were conducted using
BraTS 2018. Using brain parcellation masks as extra inputs to this neural network which used patches
improved the network in brain tumor segmentation. Using DeepMedic with brain parcellation (BP) gave
76.6%, 89.4%, and 80.4% for enhancing tumor regions, whole tumor regions and core tumor regions,
respectively. Also, using 3D U-Net with BP gave 76,4%, 89.4%, and 77.5% for enhancing tumor region,
whole tumor region, core tumor region, respectively.
Kermi et al. [36] used modifications of the 2D U-net architecture; for example, WCE and GDL were
employed as loss functions to reduce the class imbalance issue in the brain tumor datasets. Experiments were
conducted on both the BraTS 2018 dataset for testing and evaluation. They trained the model on the training
dataset of BraTS 2018 with 285 patients and validation data of 66 patients. The results obtained in terms of
DSC were 78.3%, 86.8%, and 80.5% for enhancing tumor region, whole tumor region and core tumor region.
Tseng et al. [37] presented an architecture of encoder-decoder. They used multi-modal encoder
where every MRI modality were trained by a different CNN. They conducted experiment on BraTS 2015
training dataset where 244 subjects were used for training and testing the model on 30 subjects. A DSC
scores of 85.22%, 68.35%, and 68.77% were achieved. Myronenko [38] proposed a CNN that is encoder-
decoder architecture and added a variational auto-encoder (VAE) as extra branch at the end of encoder to
reconstruct the original image. VAE is added as a regularization for the encoder in the lack of data case and
the model was trained on BraTS 2018 training dataset. The model was tested on BraTS 2018 validation
dataset which is 66 subjects with a DSC scores of 81.45%, 90.42%, 85.96% for enhancing, whole, core
tumors, respectively. Also, it was tested on BraTS 2018 testing dataset which is 191 subjects with a DSC of
76.64%, 88.39%, 81.54% for enhancing, whole, core tumors, respectively.
Peng et al. [39] proposed a 3D multi-scale encoder-decoder that uses several U-Net blocks. These
blocks enable the model to the get spatial information at different resolutions in the encoder part. Also,
feature maps were upsampled at different resolutions where, 3D separable convolutions were used as an
alternative to the ordinary convolutions. They achieved a DSC scores of 85%, 72%, and 61% for the whole,
core and enhancing tumors, respectively on BraTS 2015 dataset.
Hua et al. [40] proposed a cascaded V nets version that has encoder and decoder to segment tumor
in two stages. The same model was used in two stages where first, whole tumor was segmented then, it was
divided into other substructures (edema, core, enhancing). They trained their model on BraTS 2018 training
dataset and tested many other datasets. They achieved a DSC of 87.61%, 79.53%, and 73,64% for edema,
core and enhancing, respectively for the testing set of BraTS 2018. A dice scores of 90,48%, 83.64%, and
77.68% were achieved for the same regions mentioned above for BraTS 2018 validation dataset which is
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68 subjects. Also, they tested the performance of their model on a special dataset of 56 subjects where they
achieved a DSC of 86.35%, 80.36%, and 72.17% for whole, core and enhancing tumor regions, respectively.
Wang et al. [41] used the transformer with 3D CNN for brain tumor segmentation. They used
encoder-decoder model where the encoder extracts the spatial feature maps then, these are fed into the
transformer to model the global context and finally, decoder uses transformer output to get the prediction
map. They trained and tested their model on BraTS 2019 validation dataset where they achieved a DSC of
78.93%, 90%, and 81.94% for edema, whole tumor, core tumor respectively. Also, the DSC results were
78.73%, 90.09%, and 81.73% for edema, whole tumor, core tumor, respectively on BraTS 2020 validation
dataset.
Zhou et al. [42] proposed a model that has different encoders for each MRI modality. Then, the
resultant feature maps were concatenated by a fusion block. Finally, the concatenated feature maps were
passed to the decoder to obtain the final segmentation results. Experiments were performed on BraTS 2017
with a DSC scores of 87.7%, 79.1%, and 73.9% for whole, core, enhancing tumors, respectively.
Khan et al. [43] presented pyramidical encoder-decoder model that has six cascaded levels to extract
the segmentation predictions at different image scales. At each level, encoder-decoder model, predicts the
segmentation maps from the input images. The input images then, doubled and the prediction maps are sub-
sampled to fit the size of the images. Then, predictions and images with new size are concatenated and used
as inputs for next level. They performed experiments on many medical datasets, one of them was the TCIA
brain tumor dataset, where they achieved intersection over union (IoU) of 83.39%.
Rehman et al. [44] proposed the BrainSeg-Net encoder-decoder network which uses a new block
called feature enhancer (FE). The feature maps of each encoder block are passed to the (FE) to extract
middle-level features from the shallow layers and propagate them with the dense layers in the decoder. This
model achieved a DSC scores of 90.3%, 87.2%, 84.9% for whole core, enhancing regions, respectively.
Chen et al. [45] proposed CSU-Net encoder-decoder model that consists of two branches in the
encoder part, a CNN and transformer, and the decoder is based on dual Swin transformer. They achieved a
DSC scores of 81.88%, 88.57%, and 89.27% for enhancing, core, whole tumor regions, respectively on
BraTS 2020 dataset. Zhang et al. [46] proposed multi-scale mesh aggregation network (MSMANet). In the
encoder part, they used modified Res-Inception and SE modules for feature extraction. the decoder was
replaced by aggregation block. BraTS 2018 dataset was used to evaluate their model which achieved a DSC
scores of 75.8%, 89%, 81.1 % for enhancing, whole, core tumors, respectively.
Maji et al. [47] proposed attention Res-UNet with guided decoder (ARU-GD), that is a modified
version of Res-Unet, with attention gates and guided decoder. In this model, each decoder layer was trained
individually and the prediction result was upsampled to the original size of the input image to be compared
with ground truth of the image. Attention gates were used instead of skip connection to pass only the relevant
spatial and contextual features between encoder and decoder. This model was trained on 6,700 images from
BraTS 2019 and achieved a DSC scores of 91.1%, 87.6% and 80.1% for whole, core and enhancing tumors,
respectively.
Shan et al. [48] proposed 3D CNN based on U-net architecture. Their model comprised three main
units: improved depth-wise convolution (IDWC) unit which uses separable convolution instead of
conventional convolution to extract feature maps and computationally saving resources. Multi-channel
convolution (MCC unit), which makes convolution with different kernel sizes, enabling the network to get
features from different receptive fields. SE unit to obtain the final tumor prediction. The model was trained
on training set of BraTS 2019 and tested on validation set of BraTS 2019 with DSC scores of 90.53%,
83.73%, and 78.47% for whole, core, enhancing regions, respectively.
Aghalari et al. [49] proposed a modification on U-net architecture, by the addition of two-pathway
residual blocks (TPR), where this block has two streams: one as local path consists of (3×3) convolutional
layer then residual block to capture local information while the second stream is (5×5) convolutional layer to
capture global information. Experiments were performed on training set of BraTS dataset that contains 285
patients. Data was divided as 70% for training, 15% for validation and 15% for testing. Average DSC of
89.76% was obtained.
Rehman et al. [50] proposed 2D segmentation method (BU-Net) based on U-net model. They added
two blocks: Residual extended skip (RES) and wide context (WC) block to U-net model. The network is still
encoder-decoder model with using RES block to derive middle features from low features and WC block is
used in the transition between contracting and expensive path. They conducted their experiments on BraTS
2017 with DSC scores of 89.2%, 78.3%, 73.6% for whole, core, enhancing tumor regions, respectively and
also on BraTS 2018 with DSC scores of 90.1%, 83.7%, 78.8% for whole, core, enhancing tumor regions,
respectively.
Zhang et al. [51] proposed 2D attention residual U-Net (AResU-Net) for brain tumor segmentation
which is a U-Net based. This model is conventional encoder-decoder that includes three residual blocks in
the encoder path and the decoder path also, includes three upsampling residual blocks. Finally, attention and
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squeeze and excitation block (ASE) was utilized between upsampling and downsampling paths. To evaluate
their system, they performed many experiments on subsets data of BraTS 2017 and 2018. HGG cases from
BraTS 2017 which are 168 patients were divided into training and testing with ratio of 80:20, they achieved
DSC scores of 89.2%, 85.3%, 82,5% for whole, core, enhancing tumors, respectively. Also, they performed
another experiment on BraTS 2018 dataset where they used the training data of 285 subjects and tested the
system on validation set which is 66 subjects with DSC scores of 87.6%, 81%, 77.3%.
4. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
Deep CNNs have been remarkably developed and many architectures have been utilized in many
applications. Brain tumor segmentation process, is a task regarding the medical field that benefited from
CNNs technology where, several research works are being continuously conducted to improve the efficiency
of CNNs for segmentation. The updated improvements in CNNs can be classified according to different
ways, comprising activation and loss functions, optimization, regularization techniques, the novelties in the
learning algorithms architectures. In this paper, we review CNN variants that were used in brain tumor
segmentation having a focus on the architectural taxonomy of the networks. we noticed from the existing
works that the most used CNN variants are: conventional CNN (either single, multiple or cascaded paths) and
encoder-decoder frameworks. Also, we focused on the works, which used the well-known BraTS dataset
with four modalities (T1, T1C, T2, FLAIR) and considered a DSC metric for result evaluation, as this metric
is widely used in segmentation evaluation tasks. Unlike some reviews, researcher’s results were included in
our overview. In the Future, this survey will be extended to contain most brain tumor segmentation works
that relied on using CNNs. A detailed study of different CNNs variants that explains their architectures
techniques and articulate advantages and disadvantages, listing the datasets and including different
augmentation and prepossessing techniques also is required and would enrich the study to be a
comprehensive reference in this field.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Ahmad Al-Shboul received B.Sc. of Computer Science from Yarmouk
University, 2005 and M.Sc. of Computer Science from Jordan University of Science and
Technology, 2022. Currently, he is a Computer Trainer at the Ministry of Digital Economy and
Entrepreneurship, Jordan. His research interests include data mining, artificial intelligence. He
can be contacted at email: aaalshbool16@cit.just.edu.jo.
Maha Gharibeh received MBChB of medicine from JUST in 2009, JMCC in
diagnostic radiology in 2009 and FRCR/part 1 from RCR/London 2010. She is an assistant
Professor at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, King Abdullah
University Hospital. Her research interests include computed tomography, diagnostic
radiology, magnetic resonance, interventional ultrasonography, breast cancer, screening
imaging, medical imaging. She can be contacted at email: mmgharaibeh@just.edu.jo.
Hassan Najadat received B.Sc. of Computer Science from Muota University,
1993 and M.Sc. of Computer Science from University of Jordan, 1999 and Ph.D. of Computer
Science from North Dakota State University, 2005. Currently, he is a Professor at the
Department of Computer Information System, Jordan University of Science and Technology.
His research interests include data science, data envelopment analysis, data mining, artificial
intelligence. He can be contacted at email: najadat@just.edu.jo.
Mostafa Ali received B.Sc. of Mathematics from Jordan University of Science and
Technology, 2000 and M.Sc. of Computer Science from The University of Mitchigan, 2003
and Ph.D. of Computer Science from Wayne State University, 2008. Currently, he is a
Professor at the Department of Computer Information System, Jordan University of Science
and Technology. His research interests include artificial intelligence, deep learning,
evolutionary computation, extended reality, game theory. He can be contacted at email:
mzali@just.edu.jo.
Mwaffaq El-Heis received MBChB of Medicine and Surgery from Basrah
University in 1984, and British Fellowship of Diagnostic Radiology from Royal College of
Surgeons, 1996 and British Fellowship of Diagnostic Radiology from Royal Colleges of
Physicians of the U.K, 1996. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Diagnostic
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, King M. Abdullah University Hospital. His research interests
include interventional radiology, neuroradiology, diagnostic. He can be contacted at email:
maelheis@just.edu.jo.