Convolutional Neural Networks for MRI-Based Brain Tumor Classification

Recently, the rate at which people die from cancer disease is very alarming. The major reason is because the cancer cells were not detected at the early stages. It may be difficult for medical professionals to evaluate the results of medical imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because cancer cells may not be adequately represented for detection. This is why deep learning techniques are needed for earlier detection of cancer cells so as to reduce the death rate from such.In this paper, we have applied the convolutional neural network on some MRI image dataset downloaded from Kaggle. The model was trained to be able to detect tumors in brain MRI images. The performance of the model was evaluated and it achieved 97.8% score for the accuracy, 98.5% specificity, 96.2% recall, 98.5% F1-score and 97.3% precision. A graph was drawn to compare the training loss to the validation loss, as well as the training accuracy to the validation accuracy.