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
Author Affiliations
  • College of Intelligence and Information Engineering, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, Shandong , China
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    Figures & Tables(14)
    Network structure
    Backbone feature extraction network
    Spatial attention mechanism
    Multi level feature fusion module
    Down sampling module
    Multi kernel convolution structure
    MRI images of brain tumors. (a) No tumor; (b) glioma; (c) meningioma; (d) pituitary
    Accuracy and loss variation curves. (a) Binary classification accuracy curves; (b) change curves of binary loss; (c) four classification accuracy curves; (d) four category loss change curves
    Diagnosis results of binary classification tasks. (a) No tumor; (b) tumor
    Four classification task diagnosis results. (a) No tumor; (b) glioma; (c) meningioma; (d) pituitary
    Thermograms of various types of tumors. (a) Meningioma; (b) glioma; (c) pituitary
    • Table 1. Model performance at each stage

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      Table 1. Model performance at each stage

      ModelBinary classification/ Multiple classification
      Accuracy /%Precision /%Recall /%F1-score /%Parameter /MBit
      Stage 197.11/97.5497.19/97.5997.10/97.6197.15/97.6096.7/98.5
      Stage 298.34/98.5198.39/98.4298.44/98.5698.42/98.49115.9/121.7
      Stage 399.47/99.7599.44/99.7799.51/99.7599.48/99.76126.1/133.8
    • Table 2. Comparison of basic model performance

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      Table 2. Comparison of basic model performance

      ModelBinary classificationMultiple classification
      Accuracy /%Precision /%Recall /%F1-score /%Accuracy /%Precision /%Recall /%F1-score/%
      DenseNet12196.5896.6796.5596.6197.1797.2297.1897.20
      ResNet5097.2397.2297.2597.2497.5197.5097.5197.51
      EfficientNetB395.2295.3795.1495.2696.5196.5996.5096.55
      ConvNext96.9997.1396.9397.0397.6297.7397.6197.67
      Swin Transformer96.3596.4196.3396.3797.1197.1597.1197.13
      ResNext97.1197.1997.1097.1597.5497.5997.6197.60
      Proposed model99.4799.4499.5199.4899.7599.7799.7599.76
    • Table 3. Comparison of literature research

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      Table 3. Comparison of literature research

      TaskMethodYearAccuracy /%
      Binary classificationModel in Ref[9202498.40
      Model in Ref[24202296.00
      Model in Ref[25202196.00
      Model in Ref[26202498.05
      Proposed model202499.47
      Multiple classificationModel in Ref[17202498.09
      Model in Ref[27202497.97
      Model in Ref[12202497.11
      Model in Ref[13202398.58
      Proposed model202499.75
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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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