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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Neuroinform.
Volume 18 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fninf.2024.1403732
This article is part of the Research Topic Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Imaging: New Frontiers in Neurodiagnostics and Treatment View all 3 articles

M 3 : Using Mask-attention and Multi-scale for Multi-modal Brain MRI Classification

Provisionally accepted
Dawei Qin Dawei Qin *Guanqing Kong Guanqing Kong Chuanfu Wu Chuanfu Wu Zongqiu Zhang Zongqiu Zhang Chuansheng Yin Chuansheng Yin
  • Linyi People's Hospital, Linyi, China

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    Introduction: Brain diseases, particularly the classification of gliomas and brain metastases and the prediction of HT in strokes, pose significant challenges in healthcare. Existing methods, relying predominantly on clinical data or imaging-based techniques such as radiomics, often fall short in achieving satisfactory classification accuracy. These methods fail to adequately capture the nuanced features crucial for accurate diagnosis, often hindered by noise and the inability to integrate information across various scales.We propose a novel approach that mask attention mechanisms with multi-scale feature fusion for Multimodal brain disease classification tasks, termed M 3 , which aims to extract features highly relevant to the disease. The extracted features are then dimensionally reduced using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), followed by classification with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to obtain the predictive results.Our methodology underwent rigorous testing on multi-parametric MRI datasets for both brain tumors and strokes. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in addressing critical clinical challenges, including the classification of gliomas, brain metastases, and the prediction of hemorrhagic stroke transformations. Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of our attention mechanism and feature fusion modules.Discussion: These findings underscore the potential of our approach to meet and exceed current clinical diagnostic demands, offering promising prospects for enhancing healthcare outcomes in the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases.

    Keywords: Brain tumor classification, HT prediction in stroke, Deep learing, attention mechanism, Multi-scale feature fusion

    Received: 19 Mar 2024; Accepted: 09 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qin, Kong, Wu, Zhang and Yin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dawei Qin, Linyi People's Hospital, Linyi, China

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