A secure two-qubit quantum model for segmentation and classification of brain tumor using MRI images based on blockchain

Clinically acquired new challenging dataset for brain SOL segmentation: AJBDS-2023

Space-occupying lesions (SOL) brain detected on brain MRI are benign and malignant tumors. Several brain tumor segmentation algorithms have been developed but there is a need for a clinically acquired dataset that is used for real-time images. This research is done to facilitate reporting of MRI done for brain tumor detection by incorporating computer-aided detection. Another objective was to make reporting unbiased by decreasing inter-observer errors and expediting daily reporting sessions to decrease radiologists' workload. This is an experimental study. The proposed dataset contains clinically acquired multiplanar, multi-sequential MRI slices (MPMSI) which are used as input to the segmentation model without any preprocessing. The proposed AJBDS-2023 consists of 10667 images of real patients imaging data with a size of 320*320*3. Acquired images have T1W, TW2, Flair, T1W contrast, ADC, and DWI sequences. Pixel-based ground-truth annotated images of the tumor core and edema of 6334 slices are made manually under the supervision of a radiologist. Quantitative assessment of AJBDS-2023 images is done by a novel U-network on 4333 MRI slices. The diagnostic accuracy of our algorithm U-Net trained on AJBDS-2023 was 77.4 precision, 82.3 DSC, 87.4 specificity, 93.8 sensitivity, and 90.4 confidence interval. An experimental analysis of AJBDS-2023 done by the U-Net segmentation model proves that the proposed AJBDS-2023 dataset has images without preprocessing, which is more challenging and provides a more realistic platform for evaluation and analysis of newly developed algorithms in this domain and helps radiologists in MRI brain reporting more realistically.

Microscopic parasite malaria classification using best feature selection based on generalized normal distribution optimization

Malaria disease can indeed be fatal if not identified and treated promptly. Due to advancements in the malaria diagnostic process, microscopy techniques are employed for blood cell analysis. Unfortunately, the diagnostic process of malaria via microscopy depends on microscopic skills. To overcome such issues, machine/deep learning algorithms can be proposed for more accurate and efficient detection of malaria. Therefore, a method is proposed for classifying malaria parasites that consist of three phases. The bilateral filter is applied to enhance image quality. After that shape-based and deep features are extracted. In shape-based pyramid histograms of oriented gradients (PHOG) features are derived with the dimension of N × 300. Deep features are derived from the residual network (ResNet)-50, and ResNet-18 at fully connected layers having the dimension of N × 1,000 respectively. The features obtained are fused serially, resulting in a dimensionality of N × 2,300. From this set, N × 498 features are chosen using the generalized normal distribution optimization (GNDO) method. The proposed method is accessed on a microscopic malarial parasite imaging dataset providing 99% classification accuracy which is better than as compared to recently published work.

PDC-Net: parallel dilated convolutional network with channel attention mechanism for pituitary adenoma segmentation

Accurate segmentation of the medical image is the basis and premise of intelligent diagnosis and treatment, which has a wide range of clinical application value. However, the robustness and effectiveness of medical image segmentation algorithms remains a challenging subject due to the unbalanced categories, blurred boundaries, highly variable anatomical structures and lack of training samples. For this reason, we present a parallel dilated convolutional network (PDC-Net) to address the pituitary adenoma segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging images. Firstly, the standard convolution block in U-Net is replaced by a basic convolution operation and a parallel dilated convolutional module (PDCM), to extract the multi-level feature information of different dilations. Furthermore, the channel attention mechanism (CAM) is integrated to enhance the ability of the network to distinguish between lesions and non-lesions in pituitary adenoma. Then, we introduce residual connections at each layer of the encoder-decoder, which can solve the problem of gradient disappearance and network performance degradation caused by network deepening. Finally, we employ the dice loss to deal with the class imbalance problem in samples. By testing on the self-established patient dataset from Quzhou People's Hospital, the experiment achieves 90.92% of Sensitivity, 99.68% of Specificity, 88.45% of Dice value and 79.43% of Intersection over Union (IoU).

A Survey on Deep Learning Based Segmentation, Detection and Classification for 3D Point Clouds

The computer vision, graphics, and machine learning research groups have given a significant amount of focus to 3D object recognition (segmentation, detection, and classification). Deep learning approaches have lately emerged as the preferred method for 3D segmentation problems as a result of their outstanding performance in 2D computer vision. As a result, many innovative approaches have been proposed and validated on multiple benchmark datasets. This study offers an in-depth assessment of the latest developments in deep learning-based 3D object recognition. We discuss the most well-known 3D object recognition models, along with evaluations of their distinctive qualities.

A Novel Approach for Hybrid Image Segmentation GCPSO: FCM Techniques for MRI Brain Tumour Identification and Classification

In recent times, the early detection of brain tumour analysis and classification has become a very vital part of the medical field. The MRI scan image is the most significant tool to study brain tissue for proper diagnosis and efficient treatment planning to detect the early stages. In this research study, the two contributions were executed in the preprocessing mode. (a) Using wavelet transform to apply decomposed sub-bands of a low-frequency signal to control and adapt the spatial and intensity parameters in a bilateral filter and (b) to detect texture regions and block boundary to control and adapt the spatial and intensity parameters in a bilateral filter When compared to other image resolution methods, the adaptive bilateral method restores the original image quality and has a higher accuracy rate. Using the hybrid segmentation method of GCPSO (Guaranteed Convergence Particle Swarm Optimization) -FCM (Fuzzy C-Mean) techniques, the results were compared with various segmentation. The proposed segmentation gives a better accuracy rate of 95.32%.

An optimized features selection approach based on Manta Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO) method for parasite malaria classification

Malaria is a serious and lethal disease that has been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), with an estimated 219 million new cases and 435,000 deaths globally. The most frequent malaria detection method relies mainly on the specialists who examine the samples under a microscope. Therefore, a computerized malaria diagnosis system is required. In this article, malaria cell segmentation and classification methods are proposed. The malaria cells are segmented using a color-based k-mean clustering approach on the selected number of clusters. After segmentation, deep features are extracted using pre-trained models such as efficient-net-b0 and shuffle-net, and the best features are selected using the Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO) method. Two experiments are performed for classification using 10-fold cross-validation, the first experiment is based on the best features selected from the pre-trained models individually, while the second experiment is performed based on the selection of best features from the fusion of extracted features using both pre-trained models. The proposed method provided an accuracy of 99.2% for classification using the linear kernel of the SVM classifier. An empirical study demonstrates that the fused features vector results are better as compared to the individual best-selected features vector and the existing latest methods published so far.

Recognition of Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) Using YOLOv2 and Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the deadliest forms of arthritis. If not treated at an early stage, it may lead to knee replacement. That is why early diagnosis of KOA is necessary for better treatment. Manually KOA detection is a time-consuming and error-prone task. Computerized methods play a vital role in accurate and speedy detection. Therefore, the classification and localization of the KOA method are proposed in this work using radiographic images. The two-dimensional radiograph images are converted into three-dimensional and LBP features are extracted having the dimension of N × 59 out of which the best features of N × 55 are selected using PCA. The deep features are also extracted using Alex-Net and Dark-net-53 with the dimensions of N × 1024 and N × 4096, respectively, where N represents the number of images. Then, N × 1000 features are selected individually from both models using PCA. Finally, the extracted features are fused serially with the dimension of N × 2055 and passed to the classifiers on a 10-fold cross-validation that provides an accuracy of 90.6% for the classification of KOA grades. The localization model is proposed with the combination of an open exchange neural network (ONNX) and YOLOv2 that is trained on the selected hyper-parameters. The proposed model provides 0.98 mAP for the localization of classified images. The experimental analysis proves that the presented framework provides better results as compared to existing works.