Deep CNN for Brain Tumor Classification

Brain tumor represents one of the most fatal cancers around the world. It is common cancer in adults and children. It has the lowest survival rate and various types depending on their location, texture, and shape. The wrong classification of the tumor brain will lead to bad consequences. Consequently, identifying the correct type and grade of tumor in the early stages has an important role to choose a precise treatment plan. Examining the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of the patient’s brain represents an effective technique to distinguish brain tumors. Due to the big amounts of data and the various brain tumor types, the manual technique becomes time-consuming and can lead to human errors. Therefore, an automated computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) system is required. The recent evolution in image classification techniques has shown great progress especially the deep convolution neural networks (CNNs) which have succeeded in this area. In this regard, we exploited CNN for the problem of brain tumor classification. We suggested a new model, which contains various layers in the aim to classify MRI brain tumor. The proposed model is experimentally evaluated on three datasets. Experimental results affirm that the suggested approach provides a convincing performance compared to existing methods.