A combination of feature extraction methods and deep learning for brain tumour classification

Abstract

This paper presents a method for categorizing tumour disease from magnetic resonance imaging images using a convolutional neural network. The proposed technique consists of three major phases, including feature extraction, feature selection, and combination. The authors considered the classification method using convolutional neural network without any pre-processing on input images as the original method. The original method is then improved in some sequential phases when convolutional neural network uses features generated by feature extraction methods. Many popular feature extraction methods in generating the input features of the network are examined. After examining the results, a set of feature extraction schemes with appropriate performance are selected for the next phase. Also, the authors assigned weight factors to each of the selected methods, according to their accuracy. By assigning these weight factors to the methods, the network's accuracy increased to an acceptable level compared to the first and second observations. An accuracy above 99.76% was achieved, which is a 2% improvement using these feature extraction methods compared to the original method. The authors also added a third class named ‘I do not know’ to increase the tumour detection problem's reliability in the last phase. The authors have successfully introduced a convolutional neural network architecture with high accuracy and reliability.