Brain Tumor Detection using Integrated Learning Process Detection (ILPD)

Abstract

Brain tumor detection becomes more complicated process in medical image processing. Analyzing brain tumors is very difficult task because of the unstructured shape of the tumors. Generally, tumors are of two types such as cancerous and non-cancerous. Cancerous tumors are called malignant and non-cancerous are called benign tumors. Malignant tumors are more complex to the patients if these are not detected in the early stages. Precancerous are the other types of tumors that may become cancerous if the treatment is not taken in the early stages. Machine Learning (ML) approaches are most widely used to detect complex patterns but ML has various disadvantages such as time taking process to detect brain tumors. In this paper, integrated learning process detection (ILPD) is introduced to detect the tumors in the brain and analyzes the shape and size of the tumors, and find the stage of the tumors in the given input image. To increase the tumor detection rate advanced image filters are adopted with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (D-CNN) to improve the detection rate. A pre-trained model called VGG19 is applied to train the MRI brain images for effective detection of tumors. Two benchmark datasets are collected from Kaggle and BraTS 2019 contains MRI brain scan images. The performance of the proposed approach is analyzed by showing the accuracy, f1-score, sensitivity, dice similarity score and specificity.