arXiv Machine Learning

Multimodal Brain Tumour Classification Using Feature Fusion

arXiv:2606. 11107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinicians diagnose brain tumors by synthesizing patient symptoms, medical history, and quantitative imaging data from modalities such as MRI and CT scans into a unified clinical judgement.

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Jun 21

Multi-cancer detection using a computationally efficient CNN with transfer learning

This study introduces a computationally efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture enhanced with transfer learning for multi-cancer detection using biomedical images. The proposed lightweight CNN model is designed to reduce computational complexity while maintaining high classification performance, making it suitable for deployment in resource-constrained environments.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

NeuroTS-Net: Multi-Class Semantic Segmentation of Pediatric Brain Tumors in Multi-Modal MRI

NeuroTS-Net is a 3‑D encoder‑decoder CNN designed for multi‑class semantic segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi‑modal MRI. It uses a dual‑scale raw‑detail stream, adaptive low‑resolution context selection, and detail‑preserving multipath downsampling to maintain fine intensity and boundary information while modeling broader tumor context. Trained on the BraTS 2026 pediatric dataset, it outperformed nnU‑Net and MedNeXt, achieving Dice scores of 0.938/0.937 on internal validation and 0.927/0.926 on the official challenge set.

By Darius Peteleaza, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Bogdan Neamtu, Arpad Gellert, Mariana Sandu, Claudiu Matei
arXiv AI
Sep 3

ORB-SVM : An Innovative Hybrid Framework for Efficient Brain Tumor Detection from MRI Scans

The paper presents ORB-SVM, a hybrid framework that combines the ORB algorithm for feature extraction with a Support Vector Machine for classifying brain tumors in MRI scans. It achieves a 99.5% reduction in data size while preserving key diagnostic features, and reports a 97.5% classification accuracy on the Br35H dataset. This approach offers a resource‑efficient alternative to deep learning models, reducing computational cost and data requirements.

By Amirhosein Azarpour
arXiv AI
Jun 12

BrainDINO: A Brain MRI Foundation Model for Generalizable Clinical Representation Learning

arXiv:2604. 27277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Brain MRI underpins a wide range of neuroscientific and clinical applications, yet most learning-based methods remain task-specific and require substantial labeled data.

By Yizhou Wu, Shansong Wang, Yuheng Li, Mojtaba Safari, Mingzhe Hu, Chih-Wei Chang, Harini Veeraraghavan, Xiaofeng Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

Learning Sparse Latent Predictive Foundation Model for Multimodal Neuroimaging

The paper introduces Neuro‑JEPA, a sparse multimodal foundation model that learns unified representations of brain MRI across T1w, T2w, and FLAIR sequences using a latent predictive objective and a Mixture‑of‑Experts architecture. It was pretrained on over 1.5 million scans from 428,647 studies and systematically evaluates architectural, masking, objective, and sparsity choices for robust multimodal representation learning. Across 47 tasks from three health systems and 12 public datasets, Neuro‑JEPA consistently outperforms a simple CNN baseline, demonstrating its effectiveness for both clinical and research applications.

By Haoxu Huang, Long Chen, Jingyun Chen, Jinu Hyun, James Ryan Loftus, Kara Melmed, Daniel Orringer, Jennifer Frontera, Seena Dehkharghani, Arjun Masurkar, Narges Razavian
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Does DCGAN-Based Synthetic Augmentation Improve Brain Tumor MRI Classification? An Empirical Study

This study examined whether augmenting brain tumor MRI datasets with class‑specific DCGAN‑generated images improves classification performance. Using 7,200 scans across four tumor categories, a Swin Transformer classifier trained on real images alone achieved 96% accuracy, identical to the model trained with 500 synthetic images per class. Metrics such as macro F1 and ROC‑AUC showed no improvement, and FID scores indicated substantial distributional differences between real and synthetic images.

By Irhum Jawad Khan, Talha bin Aslam
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Integrating Local Detail and Global Context: A Dual-Input Multi-Task Learning Framework for Bone Tumor Diagnosis

The paper introduces a dual‑input, multi‑task learning framework that jointly segments and classifies bone tumors by applying bidirectional cross‑modal attention between a lesion crop and the full radiograph. Using a YOLO‑based detector and a dual‑stream DenseNet121 architecture, the model fuses fine‑grained lesion detail with global anatomical context through a novel cross‑modal attention fusion strategy and hierarchical multi‑scale feature fusion. On the multi‑institutional Bone Tumor X‑ray Radiograph Dataset, the approach outperforms single‑input baselines, achieving a Dice coefficient of 0.896 and a macro‑averaged F1‑score of 0.928, with an AUC of 0.999 for malignant osteosarcoma.

By S. M. Nasif Uddin, Rusab Sarmun, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Adam Mushtak, Israa Al-Hashimi, Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul