# Deep Transfer Learning for Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Multi-class Classification

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07333 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.07333/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 52 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 14 Jun 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [A Survey on Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1702.05747/) (2017)
- [Cyclical Learning Rates for Training Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.01186/) (2015)
- [A Survey on Deep Transfer Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.01974/) (2018)
- [Snapshot Ensembles: Train 1, get M for free](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00109/) (2017)
- [Capsule Networks for Brain Tumor Classification based on MRI Images and Course Tumor Boundaries](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.00597/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [The Performance of Transferability Metrics does not Translate to Medical Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.07444/) (2023)
- [An Exploratory Approach Towards Investigating and Explaining Vision Transformer and Transfer Learning for Brain Disease Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.16039/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a principal diagnostic approach used in the field of radiology to create images of the anatomical and physiological structure of patients. MRI is the prevalent medical imaging practice to find abnormalities in soft tissues. Traditionally they are analyzed by a radiologist to detect abnormalities in soft tissues, especially the brain. The process of interpreting a massive volume of patient's MRI is laborious. Hence, the use of Machine Learning methodologies can aid in detecting abnormalities in soft tissues with considerable accuracy. In this research, we have curated a novel dataset and developed a framework that uses Deep Transfer Learning to perform a multi-classification of tumors in the brain MRI images. In this paper, we adopted the Deep Residual Convolutional Neural Network (ResNet50) architecture for the experiments along with discriminative learning techniques to train the model. Using the novel dataset and two publicly available MRI brain datasets, this proposed approach attained a classification accuracy of 86.40% on the curated dataset, 93.80% on the Harvard Whole Brain Atlas dataset, and 97.05% accuracy on the School of Biomedical Engineering dataset. Results of our experiments significantly demonstrate our proposed framework for transfer learning is a potential and effective method for brain tumor multi-classification tasks.