Abstract
Nowadays, brain MR (Magnetic Resonance) images are widely used by clinicians to examine the brain's anatomy to look into various pathological conditions like cerebrovascular incidents and neuro-degenerative diseases. Generally, these diseases can be identified with the MR images as "normal" and "abnormal" brains in a two-class classification problem or as disease-specific classes in a multi-class problem. This article presents an ensemble transfer learning-inspired deep architecture that uses the simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC)-based superpixel algorithm along with convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the MR images as normal or abnormal. Superpixel algorithm segments the input MR images into clusters of regions defined by similarity measures using perceptual feature space. These superpixel images are beneficial as they can provide a compact and meaningful role in computationally demanding applications. The superpixel images are then fed to the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the images. Three brain MR image datasets, NITR-DHH, DS-75, and DS-160, are used to conduct the experimentation. Through the use of deep transfer learning, the model achieves performance accuracy of 88.15% (NITR-DHH), 98.15% (DS-160), and 98.33% (DS-75) even with the small-scale medical image dataset. The experimentally obtained results demonstrate that the proposed method is promising and efficient for clinical applications for diagnosing different brain diseases via MR images.
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