Brain tumor classification using PCA-NGIST features with an enhanced RELM classifier

Abstract

Brain tumours may cause severe health risks because of abnormal cell growth, which may result in organ malfunctions and death in adulthood. As precise identification of the tumour type is required for effective treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has recently been provided as an effective method for brain tumour diagnosis by computer-based based systems. To categorize brain tumours from MRI images, the paper offered a fusion model integrating an enhanced regularized extreme learning machine (RELM) classifier with principal component analysis (PCA) and normalized GIST (NGIST) feature extraction. While NGIST extracts strong spatial and texture features essential for modelling the tumour, PCA reduces the dimension of the input features without sacrificing significant data patterns. The improved RELM efficiently categorizes brain tumours into three categories: pituitary, meningioma, and glioma. It is optimized to improve learning capacity and generalization. The novelty of this study lies in the integration of NGIST descriptors with PCA-driven dimensionality reduction and an enhanced RELM classifier in a single lightweight framework. Unlike conventional methods that trade accuracy for computational cost, the proposed model ensures high precision and recall while remaining computationally efficient. This unique fusion demonstrates significant improvements in both diagnostic accuracy of 96% and clinical applicability, offering a balanced solution for real-time brain tumor classification.