Expeditious Diagnosis of Cerebral Aneurysm on MR Brain Angiogram Images Utilizing Soft Computing Techniques

It is always a challenging task for radiologists to detect Cerebral Aneurysms (CA). Unenhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) has become a popular screening tool because of its non-invasiveness, lack of contrast, and ionizing radiation. Because of its screening role, MRA requires a high recognition rate. This paper presents Machine Learning (ML) methods for detecting CA in MRA data. MRA scans of normal and aneurysms are collected and evaluated. This research study is divided into two sections: segmentation and classification. First, K-Means Clustering (KMC) is used for aneurysm segmentation from MR images. Second, image classification is done. For that, the appropriate features are retrieved using feature extraction and selection. Then Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) is used for feature extraction and the Genetic Algorithm (GA) for feature selection. The GLRLM and GA features are provided independently to the ML models for training and testing. The ML models used in the research work are Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Modified Fuzzy C-Means (MFCM). The metrics are employed to evaluate the GLRM and GA features with ANN and MFCM. The combination of GA features with ANN produces the best results when compared to other combinations. The GA with ANN obtains an outstanding 98.33% accuracy, 100% specificity and precision, 96.67% sensitivity, and 98.31% F1 score.