One of the leading causes of death and long-term impairment worldwide is cerebrovascular disorders, particularly stroke. A stroke occurs when blood flow to a portion of the brain is reduced or stopped. This prevents brain tissue from receiving the oxygen and other nutrients it requires. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial for lowering patient death rates, complications, and brain damage. Despite significant advancements in medical imaging technology, accurately and rapidly interpreting brain CT scans remains challenging and time-sensitive. Therefore, intelligent automated solutions that assist physicians in identifying and diagnosing strokes at an early stage are greatly needed. Medical image analysis has showed great potential because to recent developments in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). In large data sets, machine learning models can identify intricate patterns that human specialists might not immediately see. In this study, we introduce a sophisticated early stroke detection system that combines CT brain imaging with a hybrid approach that combines a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) neural network and a Genetic Algorithm (GA). The goal of this research is to find reliable algorithms, ideal features, and advanced methods that enhance diagnostic accuracy and help physicians make well-informed decisions regarding stroke prevention and treatment. The proposed system operates in multiple stages. To improve the appearance of CT brain pictures, preprocessing techniques such noise reduction, normalisation, and enhancement are first applied. The patterns that are crucial to stroke abnormalities are then found using feature extraction techniques. However, not every trait that was eliminated contributed equally to classification accuracy. We employ a genetic algorithm to identify the best attributes in order to tackle this problem. The genetic approach finds the most beneficial subset of features that significantly enhances classification performance while simplifying the problem by utilising natural evolutionary processes including selection, crossover, and mutation. They enter a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network after selecting the optimal features. When it comes to identifying both forward and backward contextual dependencies in sequential data, the BiLSTM model excels. This enables it to use CT image attributes to learn intricate representations of stroke-related patterns. Compared to standard neural networks, the BiLSTM design increases prediction accuracy and increases classification reliability. Cross-validation techniques were used in extensive studies to evaluate the effectiveness of the suggested diagnostic system. We employed several performance criteria, including Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score, Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve, and Area Under the Curve (AUC), to gauge efficacy. These evaluation measures provide a comprehensive picture of the model's prediction accuracy, sensitivity to stroke detection, and ability to lower false positives and false negatives. According to the experimental data, the suggested GA–BiLSTM hybrid model was superior at identifying strokes early on, with an overall classification accuracy of 96.5%. Additionally, the model's high precision and recall scores demonstrated its ability to consistently distinguish between stroke and non-stroke instances. The system's robustness and ability to distinguish across various data kinds were validated using the ROC and AUC analysis. The suggested model was compared to several common machine learning classifiers, including Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Naïve Bayes, and Support Vector Machines (SVM), to ensure the evaluation was thorough. In terms of accuracy, stability, and overall diagnostic efficacy, the GA–BiLSTM approach outperformed these traditional models, according to the comparison analysis. In conclusion, the developed early stroke detection system has great potential as a decision-making aid for physicians. The method combines deep learning techniques with genetic-based feature optimisation to produce extremely precise and dependable predictions. This intelligent diagnostic paradigm can assist physicians in making prompt, educated decisions that will reduce mortality rates, enhance patient outcomes, and increase the effectiveness of healthcare. The suggested approach offers up new avenues for study into automated disease detection systems and demonstrates how artificial intelligence is transforming contemporary medical diagnostics.
KUMAR et al. (Wed,) studied this question.