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Optimized convolutional neural network by firefly algorithm for magnetic resonance image classification of glioma brain tumor grade

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The most frequent brain tumor types are gliomas. The magnetic resonance imaging technique helps to make the diagnosis of brain tumors. It is hard to get the diagnosis in the early stages of the glioma brain tumor, although the specialist has a lot of experience. Therefore, for the magnetic resonance imaging interpretation, a reliable and efficient system is required which helps the doctor to make the diagnosis in early stages. To make classification of the images, to which class the glioma belongs, convolutional neural networks, which proved that they can obtain an excellent performance in the image classification tasks, can be used. Convolutional network hyperparameters’ tuning is a very important issue in this domain for achieving high accuracy on the image classification; however, this task takes a lot of computational time. Approaching this issue, in this manuscript, we propose a metaheuristics method to automatically find the near-optimal values of convolutional neural network hyperparameters based on a modified firefly algorithm and develop a system for automatic image classification of glioma brain tumor grades from magnetic resonance imaging. First, we have tested the proposed modified algorithm on the set of standard unconstrained benchmark functions and the performance is compared to the original algorithm and other modified variants. Upon verifying the efficiency of the proposed approach in general, it is applied for hyperparameters’ optimization of the convolutional neural network. The IXI dataset and the cancer imaging archive with more collections of data are used for evaluation purposes, and additionally, the method is evaluated on the axial brain tumor images. The obtained experimental results and comparative analysis with other state-of-the-art algorithms tested under the same conditions show the robustness and efficiency of the proposed method.

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The paper is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia, Grant no. III-44006.

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    Nebojsa Bacanin & Timea Bezdan

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Bacanin, N., Bezdan, T., Venkatachalam, K. et al. Optimized convolutional neural network by firefly algorithm for magnetic resonance image classification of glioma brain tumor grade. J Real-Time Image Proc 18, 1085–1098 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-021-01106-x

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