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Application and improvement of YOLO11 for brain tumor detection in medical images

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Brain tumors pose a critical threat to human health, and early detection is essential for improving patient outcomes. This study presents two key enhancements to the YOLOv11 architecture aimed at improving brain tumor detection from MRI images. First, we integrated a set of novel attention modules (Shuffle3D and Dual-channel attention) into the network to enhance its feature extraction capability. Second, we modified the loss function by combining the Complete Intersection over Union (CIoU) with a Hook function (HKCIoU). Experiments conducted on a public Kaggle dataset demonstrated that our improved model reduced parameters and computations by 2.7% and 7.8%, respectively, while achieving mAP50 and mAP50-95 improvements of 1.0% and 1.4%, respectively, over the baseline. Comparative analysis with existing models validated the robustness and accuracy of our approach.
Authors: Weijuan Han, Xinjie Dong, Guixia Wang, Yuwen Ding, Aolin Yang
Language: English
Subfield: Neurology
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,801
Funder: Strong
OpenAlex ID: W4413834776
FWCI: 4.742
Cites: 36
Cited by: 16
Related to: 10