Fractal Dimension Estimation for Developing Pathological Brain Detection System Based on Minkowski-Bouligand Method

It is of enormous significance to detect abnormal brains automatically. This paper develops an efficient pathological brain detection system based on the artificial intelligence method. We first extract brain edges by a Canny edge detector. Next, we estimated the fractal dimension using box counting method with grid sizes of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16, respectively. Afterward, we employed the single-hidden layer feedforward neural network. Finally, we proposed an improved particle swarm optimization based on three-segment particle representation, time-varying acceleration coefficient, and chaos theory. This three-segment particle representation encodes the weights, biases, and number of hidden neuron. The statistical analysis showed the proposed method achieves the detection accuracies of 100%, 98.19%, and 98.08% over three benchmark data sets. Our method costs merely 0.1984 s to predict one image. Our performance is superior to the 11 state-of-the-art approaches.