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Previously submitted to: Journal of Medical Internet Research (no longer under consideration since Oct 18, 2023)

Date Submitted: May 8, 2023

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Brain tumor MRI intelligent diagnosis based on U-Net feature extraction

  • Chenyu Wang; 
  • Fengning Liang; 
  • Mengyu Chen; 
  • Yulin Zhao; 
  • Qianqian Xu; 
  • Qian Xu; 
  • Hong Zhu

ABSTRACT

Background:

Classifying brain tumors preoperatively provides essential information for guiding treatment plans. However, existing classification methods require manual intervention which often suffer from efficiency and accuracy issues.

Objective:

The objective of our study was to Improve the accuracy and efficiency of brain tumor grading or classification. This shows that our method is to help clinicians diagnose brain tumor and formulate treatment plans.

Methods:

Our proposed method uses a DenseNet-ResNet based U-Net framework to optimize the task of extracting features from brain tumor MRI image data. It also adopts a CRNN model to classify brain tumors from sequence data. The characteristic of our method is that it needs only one sequence-level label, instead of many frame-level labels for each patient.

Results:

We proposed an automated MRI classification method for brain tumor, with an average accuracy of 90.72% for glioma classification, 94.35% for glioma IDH1 mutation classification, and 94.64% for pituitary tumor texture classification.

Conclusions:

Compared with existing purely auto-encoder based methods, ours has much better efficiency.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Wang C, Liang F, Chen M, Zhao Y, Xu Q, Xu Q, Zhu H

Brain tumor MRI intelligent diagnosis based on U-Net feature extraction

JMIR Preprints. 08/05/2023:48820

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.48820

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/48820

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