Brain Tumor Detection Using Deep Learning Techniques

In this study, we present the performance of Support Vector Machine (SVM), Convolution Neural Network (CNN), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with Bag of Words (BoW), Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG), and Image Pixels (IP) for face recognition. SVM, CNN, and ANN are machine learning approaches and has been used for pattern recognition, especially in face recognition technology. BoW, HOG, and IP are being used for image feature extraction. The testing has been conducted from publicly available AT&T face database. Every individual subject consists of 10 images with different facial expression, different illumination and the dimensions of the images is unified as 92-by-112 pixels with PGM formats. SVM achieved recognition accuracy of 97.00%, 96.00%, and 98.00% with subsequently BoW, HOG, and IP. CNN achieved recognition accuracy of 94.00%, 99.00%, and 99.50% with subsequently BoW, HOG, and IP. ANN achieved recognition accuracy of 96.00%, 99.00%, and 99.50% with subsequently BoW, HOG, and IP. The experimental results show that the IP with ANN approach clearly outperformed the others approaches.

Tumor computed tomography (CT) image segmentation can provide a basis for the determination of tumor location and type. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the automatic segmentation method of tumor CT images. To address the problem of poor segmentation effect of traditional automatic tumor CT images segmentation methods, we propose an automatic segmentation method for tumor CT images using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). First, the CT tumor image is simplified. According to the features of the target region and the background region, the distribution features of the tumor region in the CT images are obtained by convolution calculation, and the feature extraction is completed by feature fusion. Second, based on the feature extraction results, a deep supervised network is constructed to determine the image depth, which lays a solid foundation for accurate segmentation of tumor regions. Finally, DCNN was used to construct automatic segmentation for tumor CT images, which achieves the automatic segmentation of tumor CT images by mode calculation. The results show that the segmented tumor region is close to the actual region and the maximum pixel loss coefficient is 0.07, the maximum segmentation sensitivity is 7865[Formula: see text]kbps/s, the pixel segmentation specific coefficient and the segmentation edge distance are kept at a low level, which has a certain application value in the field of tumor CT images.

Detection of brain tumor is very challenging task in today’s medical world. Nowadays, many doctors prefer ready-made methods to diagnose the tumor from given magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. Accurate and less time-consuming methods are used frequently to identify it. This paper introduces new techniques for finding and differentiating brain tumors. The new methods include support vector machine (SVM) and convolution neural network (CNN) with Softmax classifier. The SVM uses histogram of oriented gradients (HOGs) as a feature to label the given dataset. Further, the same feature of the test image is verified against labeled sets and classified. The SVM gives accuracy of 87.33%. In CNN, multilayer structure is used. It contains a convolution layer followed by the pooling layer and finally fully connected layer. In CNN, specifically, Alexnet is preferred for classification. In Alexnet, rectified linear unit (ReLU) is used as an activation function. At the output of it, Softmax is used as activation to classify the images. The CNN with Softmax classifier gives improved accuracy of 98.68%. In addition, the performance measures are also found out such as specificity, sensitivity, and precision. The sensitivity with SVM is 93.18%, and with CNN, it increases up to 100%. Comparing both methods with the obtained results, the CNN with Softmax classifier gives better results. Proposed method with CNN produces only one misclassified image as an advantage over the existing method, while SVM gives nine misclassified images. The methods are tested on 253 MRI images which are detected and classified correctly with Matlab.KeywordsSVMCNNHOGMRI

This paper introduces a deep architecture for segmenting 3D objects into their labeled semantic parts. Our architecture combines image-based Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and surface-based Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to yield coherent segmentations of 3D shapes. The image-based FCNs are used for efficient view-based reasoning about 3D object parts. Through a special projection layer, FCN outputs are effectively aggregated across multiple views and scales, then are projected onto the 3D object surfaces. Finally, a surface-based CRF combines the projected outputs with geometric consistency cues to yield coherent segmentations. The whole architecture (multi-view FCNs and CRF) is trained end-to-end. Our approach significantly outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods in the currently largest segmentation benchmark (ShapeNet). Finally, we demonstrate promising segmentation results on noisy 3D shapes acquired from consumer-grade depth cameras.

Context from within: Hierarchical context modeling for semantic segmentation

Face recognition is a process of verifying an individual using facial images and it is widely employed in identifying people on social media platforms, validating identity at ATMs, finding missing persons, controlling access to sensitive areas, finding lost pets, etc. Face recognition is still a trending research area because of various challenges like illumination variations, different poses, and expressions of the person. Here, a novel methodology is introduced for face recognition using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG), histogram of Local Binary Patterns (LBP), and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The features from HOG, histogram of LBP, and deep features from the proposed CNN are linearly concatenated to produce the feature space and then classified by Support Vector Machine. The face databases ORL, Extended Yale B, and CMUPIE are used for experimental work and attained a recognition rate of 98.48%, 97.33%, and 97.28% respectively.

Palm tree detection using remote sensing images has received increasing attention in recent years, concerning the issues of sustainability, productivity and profitability. There has been significant progress in the research of using machine learning techniques, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic palm tree detection. However, whether CNNs can actually outperform traditional human-engineered approaches in terms of classification accuracy and detection speed is yet unknown. In the present study, we have compared human-engineered features namely histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), local binary pattern (LBP) and scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) with features extracted using pre-trained AlexNet model for detecting palm trees in high resolution images obtained via unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Support vector machines (SVM) with linear and non-linear kernels were used to classify feature vectors obtained by different feature extractors. Haar-like features used in Viola-Jones framework was also tested in the study. Results showed that features extracted from the fifth convolutional layer of AlexNet achieved the highest accuracy of 96.1% using SVM with RBF kernel as classifier, which surpassed the accuracy obtained by fully-connected CNN, namely 95.6%. The results also suggest that SVM classifier with radial basis function (RBF) kernel using LBP as features is the optimal combination as it achieved comparable accuracy but higher detection speed than CNN approaches.

In this work, research was focused on the recognition of stroke lesions in FLAIR MRI images. The main tools used in the study were convolution neural networks (CNN) and histograms of oriented gradients (HOG). To train the neural network, 706 FLAIR MRI images of real patients were collected and labeled. During the testing of the program implementing the algorithm, it was found out that the histogram of oriented gradients method was ineffective in clarifying the edges of the lesion. To replace the HOG technology, we proposed a method on calculating the average pixel intensity in the lesion area. The result is a program that shows an average value of 0.554 by Dice score. The developed program can be used as a digital assistant for physicians who identify the lesions of stroke on MRI images and for training physicians in radiology and neurology. With the help of the developed technology it is possible to reduce the time of detection of the stroke lesions, reduce variability of results, increase their reproducibility and process a huge amount of data.

Pixel-level labelling tasks, such as semantic segmentation, play a central role in image understanding. Recent approaches have attempted to harness the capabilities of deep learning techniques for image recognition to tackle pixel-level labelling tasks. One central issue in this methodology is the limited capacity of deep learning techniques to delineate visual objects. To solve this problem, we introduce a new form of convolutional neural network that combines the strengths of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Conditional Random Fields (CRFs)-based probabilistic graphical modelling. To this end, we formulate mean-field approximate inference for the Conditional Random Fields with Gaussian pairwise potentials as Recurrent Neural Networks. This network, called CRF-RNN, is then plugged in as a part of a CNN to obtain a deep network that has desirable properties of both CNNs and CRFs. Importantly, our system fully integrates CRF modelling with CNNs, making it possible to train the whole deep network end-to-end with the usual back-propagation algorithm, avoiding offline post-processing methods for object delineation. We apply the proposed method to the problem of semantic image segmentation, obtaining top results on the challenging Pascal VOC 2012 segmentation benchmark.

Cybercriminals use malware or malicious software to cause harm to the victim. Malware is a continuous source of concern for security teams. Malware analysis techniques, including static, dynamic, hybrid, and memory analysis, are used to comprehend the behavior and its impact. The aforementioned malware analysis techniques require domain knowledge to extract the artifacts from suspicious files, which is not always possible. A visualization approach, in which malware files are transformed into images, is one of the recently used techniques by researchers for malware detection and classification. In this paper, we apply four widely used techniques based on the visualization using a new dataset of memory dump files of malware families and benign classes. These visualization techniques include a histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) with multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN) with pretrained weight of visual geometry group 16 (VGG), Transfer learning of VGG16 with support vector machine (SVM), and integration of global image descriptor (GIST) and HOG with SVM. Among the selected techniques, CNN with a pretrained weight of VGG16 outperformed the other techniques in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and f1-score. Apart from the performance metrics, the results of selected techniques are also analyzed in terms of computational cost and memory utilization.

A Review on Convolutional Neural Networks for Brain Tumor Segmentation: Methods, Datasets, Libraries, and Future Directions

In technologically underdeveloped areas, water pollution threatens the living environment of local residents, so remote sensing monitoring of the features around reservoirs is necessary. Fully convolutional networks (FCNs) offer great potential for extracting high-resolution features due to their unlimited input image size and higher accuracy compared to convolutional neural networks. Therefore, a proposal to classify WorldView-2 images is implemented with a sixty-eight thousand iterations of fine-tuning and fully trained combined training method based on a fully convolutional network (SEFCN). The chosen images depict the urban area of Yingde, which is located to the northeast of the Feilaixia Reservoir, Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, China. The SEFCN combines an FCN-32s and FCN-16s to better integrate the deep features and shallow features and effectively improve the classification accuracy. Additionally, the loss value fully converges with enough iterations, and the overfitting caused by the superposition of two full trainings is avoided. The SEFCN model achieves the highest accuracy among all compared classification models and obtains the best classified results on the WorldView-2 images, as demonstrated by attaining the highest F1 scores in each category. After the classified images are optimized using a conditional random field, the current status of the study area is analyzed, and several suggestions for land use in the urban area of Yingde are made. The experiments still have deficiencies in the application of high-resolution remote sensing image classification with different sensors, and the classification results can be optimized and improved in other aspects.

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental step to measure cell motility and morphology in High-throughput microscopy images. One prerequisite of automatic nuclei segmentation is to manually label a huge amount of cell images, which is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. This paper develops a semi-supervised learning approach to reduce the dependence on the amount of labeled images, and it consists of three main steps. First, cell regions are automatically extracted from the background through a novel convolutional neural network (CNN). Comparing with the state-of-art segmentation network structure, our designed network structure has fewer parameters and combines layers of the feature hierarchy that refines the spatial precision of the output probability map. Second, discriminator networks are explored to produce confidence maps for unlabeled microscopy images by applying a fully convolution network (FCN) as the discriminator network. It also can be used to improve the performance of the segmentation network by coupling the adversarial loss with standard cross-entropy loss. Finally, combining both labeled images and unlabeled images with confidence maps to train the segmentation network can identify individual nuclei on the extracted cell regions. Experimental results on only 84 images showed that SEG score could achieve 77.9% and F1 score could achieve 76.0%, which outperformed existing using 670 images segmentation methods. Such promising result suggested that the proposed semi-supervised nuclei segmentation approach could achieve high segmentation accuracy with a small set of labeled images, which is a desirable property to analyze microscopy images in the real clinical practice.

Objectives/Aim: The present paper deals with building a smart assistant with the aim of assisting the visually impaired people in mobility with confidence by realizing the nearby obstacles and also implement image processing techniques to recognize people. Methods: We use Raspberry Pi 4 which has increased computing performance and is interfaced to the picamera, GPS and GSM modules. Arduino pro mini with buzzer, ultrasonic sensors and vibration motors are used for obstacle detection. Certain libraries important for image processing are used such as OpenCV, Dlib, face detection (Haar cascades, HOG + Linear SVM, or CNNs), espeak for converting text to speech. Programming was implemented through Python and Arduino compiler. Findings: Analysis was carried out using the proposed system for the blind and visually impaired people who could move around comfortably with confidence and were also able to detect objects and recognize people. Hence the proposed system removes the use for the cumbersome white cane in exchange for small and handy modules which can be used in the form of wearables mounted on shoulders, hands and legs to detect the obstacles from multiple directions and provide for a comfortable wear. It was determined that the Raspberry pi 4 was incapable of running CNN detection for which ideally computer GPU was required, so HOG detection method was used instead. Application/Improvements: This project can be implemented mainly in the commercial field of helping visually impaired people with poor eyesight or being completely blind. Industrial applications can be devised and enhanced like robots and machineries along with Security, Identifying and Tracking. Keywords: Face Recognition; Obstacle Detection; Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV); Deep Learning; Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG); Support Vector Machine (SVM); Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Image semantic segmentation contains two sub-tasks, segmenting and labeling. However, the recent fully convolutional network (FCN) based methods often ignore the first sub-task and consider it as a direct labeling one. Even though these methods have achieved competitive performances, they obtained spatially fragmented and disconnected outputs. The reason is that, pixel-level relationships inside the deepest layers become inconsistent since traditional FCNs do not have any explicit pixel grouping mechanism. To address this problem, a multi-step supervised learning method, which contains image-level supervised learning step and pixel-level supervised learning step, is proposed. Specifically, as for the visualized result of image semantic segmentation, it is actually an image-to-image transformation problem, from RGB domain to category label domain. The recent conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) has achieved significant performance for image-to-image generation task, and the generated image remains good regional connectivity. Therefore, a cGAN supervised by RGB-category label map is used to obtain a coarse segmentation mask, which avoids generating disconnected segmentation results to a certain extent. Furthermore, an interaction information (II) loss term is proposed for cGAN to remain the spatial structure of the segmentation mask. Additionally, dilated convolutional networks (DCNs) have achieved significant performance in object detection field, especially for small objects because of its special receptive field settings. Specific to image semantic segmentation, if each pixel is seen as an object, this task can be transformed to object detection. In this case, combined with the segmentation mask from cGAN, a DCN supervised by the pixel-level label is used to finalize the category recognition of each pixel in the image. The proposed method achieves satisfactory performances on three public and challenging datasets for image semantic segmentation.