Brain Tumor Classification Using Image Fusion and EFPA-SVM Classifier

An accurate and early diagnosis of brain tumors based on medical ima-ging modalities is of great interest because brain tumors are a harmful threat to a person’s health worldwide.Several medical imaging techniques have been used to analyze brain tumors,including computed tomography(CT)and magnetic reso-nance imaging(MRI).CT provides information about dense tissues,whereas MRI gives information about soft tissues.However,the fusion of CT and MRI images has little effect on enhancing the accuracy of the diagnosis of brain tumors.Therefore,machine learning methods have been adopted to diagnose brain tumors in recent years.This paper intends to develop a novel scheme to detect and classify brain tumors based on fused CT and MRI images.The pro-posed approach starts with preprocessing the images to reduce the noise.Then,fusion rules are applied to get the fused image,and a segmentation algorithm is employed to isolate the tumor region from the background to isolate the tumor region.Finally,a machine learning classifier classified the brain images into benign and malignant tumors.Computing statistical measures evaluate the classi-fication potential of the proposed scheme.Experimental outcomes are provided,and the Enhanced Flower Pollination Algorithm(EFPA)system shows that it out-performs other brain tumor classification methods considered for comparison.

Fusion Fault Diagnosis Approach to Rolling Bearing with Vibrational and Acoustic Emission Signals

As the key component in aeroengine rotor systems,the health status of rolling bearings directly influences the reliability and safety of aeroengine rotor systems.In order to monitor rolling bearing conditions,a fusion fault diagnosis method,namely empirical mode decomposition(EMD)-Mahalanobis distance(E2MD)and improved wavelet threshold(IWT)(E2MD-IWT)for vibrational signals and acoustic emission(AE)signals is developed to improve the diagnostic accuracy of rolling bearings.The IWT method is proposed with a hard wavelet threshold and a soft wavelet threshold.Moreover,it is shown to be effective through numerical simulation.EMD is utilized to process the original AE signals for rolling bearings so as to generate a set of components called intrinsic modes functions(IMFs).The Mahalanobis distance(MD)approach is introduced in order to determine the smallest MD between the original AE signal and IMF components.Then,the IWT approach is employed to select the IMF components with the largest MD.It is demonstrated that the proposed E2MD-IWT method for vibrational and AE signals can improve rolling bearing fault diagnosis,beyond its ability to effectively eliminate noise signals.This study offers a promising approach to fault diagnosis for rolling bearings in aeroengines with regard to vibration signals and AE signals.