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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Oncol.

Sec. Cancer Imaging and Image-directed Interventions

Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1512739

This article is part of the Research Topic Deep Learning for Medical Imaging Applications View all 14 articles

EnSLDe: An Enhanced Short-Range and Long-Range Dependent System for Brain Tumor Classification

Provisionally accepted
Wenna Chen Wenna Chen 1*Junqiang Liu Junqiang Liu 2Xinghua Tan Xinghua Tan 2Jincan Zhang Jincan Zhang 2Ganqin Du Ganqin Du 1Qizhi Fu Qizhi Fu 1Hongwei Jiang Hongwei Jiang 1
  • 1 The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
  • 2 Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan Province, China

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    Brain tumors pose significant harm to the functionality of the human nervous system. There are lots of models which can classify brain tumor type. However, the available methods did not pay special attention to long-range information, which limits model accuracy improvement. To solve this problem, in this paper, an enhanced short-range and long-range dependent system for brain tumor classification, named as EnSLDe, is proposed. The EnSLDe model consists of three main modules: the Feature Extraction Module (FExM), the Feature Enhancement Module (FEnM), and the Classification Module. Firstly, the FExM is used to extract features and the multi-scale parallel subnetwork is constructed to fuse shallow and deep features. Then, the extracted features are enhanced by the FEnM. The FEnM can capture the important dependencies across a larger sequence range and retain critical information at a local scale. Finally, the fused and enhanced features are input to the classification module for brain tumor classification. The combination of these modules enables the efficient extraction of both local and global contextual information. In order to validate the model, two public data sets including glioma, meningioma, and pituitary tumor were validated, and good experimental results were obtained, demonstrating the potential of the model EnSLDe in brain tumor classification.

    Keywords: Brain tumor classification, feature extraction, Feature enhancement, long-range dependencies, Attention 1

    Received: 19 Oct 2024; Accepted: 21 Mar 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Chen, Liu, Tan, Zhang, Du, Fu and Jiang. 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: Wenna Chen, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China

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