Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 8, 0817003(2025)

Application of Multi-Level Feature Fusion Method Combined with Transformer in Brain Tumor Diagnosis

Yang Bai*, Dejian Wei, Boru Fang, Liang Jiang, and Hui Cao
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  • College of Intelligence and Information Engineering, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, Shandong , China
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    As a significant brain disorder, brain tumors constantly threaten human health, making early diagnosis crucial. In the analysis of existing methods, deep learning, with its ability to automatically extract features through multi-level nonlinear transformations, demonstrates superior performance in diagnosing brain tumors. In this study, a deep-learning-based brain tumor diagnosis model that focuses on multi-level feature analysis is proposed. ResNext is employed to extract multi-level features. A spatial attention mechanism combining linear layers and large-kernel convolutions is designed to analyze multi-level contextual information. Moreover, the Transformer structure is integrated to dynamically fuse multi-level features, generating feature maps with high expression power for the final diagnosis. The model is trained and evaluated on the Kaggle dataset for two-class and four-class brain tumor classification tasks. Experimental results show that the model achieves an accuracy of 99.47% in distinguishing between no tumor and tumor, and an accuracy of 99.75% in distinguishing between no tumor and three types of tumors. Compared with other deep-learning models, the proposed method demonstrates superior diagnostic capabilities, enabling early diagnosis with high accuracy.

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    Yang Bai, Dejian Wei, Boru Fang, Liang Jiang, Hui Cao. Application of Multi-Level Feature Fusion Method Combined with Transformer in Brain Tumor Diagnosis[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(8): 0817003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Medical Optics and Biotechnology

    Received: Aug. 8, 2024

    Accepted: Oct. 17, 2024

    Published Online: Apr. 3, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP241825

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241825

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