Brain Tumor Detection Using Multipath Convolution Neural Network (CNN)

Abstract

Brain tumor segmentation is an emerging application of automated medical image diagnosis. Robust approach of brain tumor segmentation and detection is a research problem, and the performance metrics of the existing tumor detection methods are not appropriately known. Deep neural network using convolution neural network (CNN) is being researched in this direction, but no general architecture is found that can be used as robust method for brain tumor detection. The authors have proposed a multipath CNN architecture for brain tumor segmentation and detection, which provides improved results as compared to existing methods. The proposed work has been tested for datasets BRATS2013, BRTAS2015, and BRATS2017 with significant improvement in dice index and timing values by utilizing the capability of multipath CNN architecture, which combines both local and global paths.