Brain tumor magnetic resonance images classification based machine learning paradigms.

Introduction: Cancer of the nervous system is one of the most common types of cancer in the world and mostly due to presence of a tumour in the brain. The symptoms and severity of the brain tumour depend on its location. The tumour within the brain may develop from nerves, dura (meningioma), pituitary gland (pituitary adenoma), or from the brain tissue itself (glioma). Material and methods: In this study we proposed a feature engineering approach for classification magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 3 kinds of most common brain tumour, i.e. glioma, meningioma, pituitary, and no-tumour. Here 5 machine learning classifiers were used, i.e. support vector machine, K-nearest neighbour (KNN), Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, and Ensemble classifier with their paradigms. Results: The handcrafted features such as histogram of oriented gradients, local binary pattern features, and grey level co-occurrence matrix are extracted from the MRI, and the feature fusion technique is adopted to enhance the dimension of feature vector. The Fine KNN outperforms among the classifiers for recognition of 4 kinds of MRI: glioma, meningioma, pituitary, and no tumour, and achieved 91.1% accuracy and 0.95 area under the curve (AUC). Conclusions: The proposed method, i.e. Fine KNN, achieved 91.1% accuracy and 0.96 AUC. Furthermore, this model has the possibility to integrate in low-end devices unlike deep learning, which required a complex system.

Computer aid screening of COVID-19 using X-ray and CT scan images: An inner comparison.

The objective of this study is to conduct a critical analysis to investigate and compare a group of computer aid screening methods of COVID-19 using chest X-ray images and computed tomography (CT) images. The computer aid screening method includes deep feature extraction, transfer learning, and machine learning image classification approach. The deep feature extraction and transfer learning method considered 13 pre-trained CNN models. The machine learning approach includes three sets of handcrafted features and three classifiers. The pre-trained CNN models include AlexNet, GoogleNet, VGG16, VGG19, Densenet201, Resnet18, Resnet50, Resnet101, Inceptionv3, Inceptionresnetv2, Xception, MobileNetv2 and ShuffleNet. The handcrafted features are GLCM, LBP & HOG, and machine learning based classifiers are KNN, SVM & Naive Bayes. In addition, the different paradigms of classifiers are also analyzed. Overall, the comparative analysis is carried out in 65 classification models, i.e., 13 in deep feature extraction, 13 in transfer learning, and 39 in the machine learning approaches. Finally, all classification models perform better when applying to the chest X-ray image set as comparing to the use of CT scan image set. Among 65 classification models, the VGG19 with SVM achieved the highest accuracy of 99.81%when applying to the chest X-ray images. In conclusion, the findings of this analysis study are beneficial for the researchers who are working towards designing computer aid tools for screening COVID-19 infection diseases.