MT-MRANBRAINTUMORNET: A NOVEL BRAIN TUMOUR AND SEVERITY LEVEL CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK USING META-HEURISTIC-ASSISTED TRANSFORMER BASED MULTISCALE RESIDUAL ATTENTION NETWORK

Abstract

Brain tumor is generally structured by the subtle summation of anomalous cells because it categorized as a mass of tissue, and it is very crucial to categorize brain tumors from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for diagnosis purpose. The investigation of brain tumors by humans is a routine process for detecting and classifying MRI brain tumors. Due to the low contrast of the images, poor boundaries and noises, the image classification techniques provide poor performance in medical images. Hence, a new classification model for detecting brain tumors is needed to solve the critical challenges in existing approaches. This decreases human intervention while making decisions about brain tumors. Therefore, a new brain tumor classification model is investigated to solve the challenges in existing approaches with deep learning. The proposed framework consists of two main different phases (i) classifying normal and abnormal images and (b) Segmentation and severity classification of abnormal images. The first step is comprised of pre-processing and classification. Firstly, the required images are gathered from the benchmark databases. These collected images are undergone pre-processing, which is done by filtering methods and Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE). Subsequently, the pre-processed image is fed into the new classification model as a Transformer-based Multi-scale Residual Attention Network (TMRAN), where the normal and abnormal images are obtained. While in the second case, the classified abnormal image is considered as the input for the segmentation process. The segmented image is obtained by Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Modified UNet and UNet, in turn the parameters in UNet is optimized by using the Modified Controlling Parameters-based African Vultures Optimization Algorithm (MCP-AVOA), termed as Modified UNet. At the final stage, these segmented images are applied as input to the novel TMRAN model, where the hyper parameters are tuned optimally using improved MCP-AVOA in order to acquire the optimal severity classified results. The performance is validated using diverse measures and compared over other conventional methodologies. Thus, the findings elucidate that the proposed model attains higher classification results.