STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection
Brain tumors are among the deadliest malignant neoplasms worldwide, and early detection is critical for improving treatment outcomes and patient prognosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a central role in the clinical diagnosis of brain tumors due to its exceptional ability to visualize brai...
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| author | Liyan Sun Linxuan Zheng Zhiguo Xiao Yi Xin Linqing Jiang |
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| description | Brain tumors are among the deadliest malignant neoplasms worldwide, and early detection is critical for improving treatment outcomes and patient prognosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a central role in the clinical diagnosis of brain tumors due to its exceptional ability to visualize brain structures and detect tumors. However, traditional MRI detection models for brain tumors often struggle to balance high accuracy with a lightweight design. To address this challenge, this study proposes a novel model—STAR-YOLO—based on the optimization of YOLOv8n. The model refines the backbone network and enhances the C2f module within the neck network. It also integrates SimAM, a parameter-free attention mechanism, and utilizes ShapeIoU as the localization loss function. These innovations enable STAR-YOLO to achieve both high accuracy and a lightweight design. Experimental results on the Br35H public dataset show that STAR-YOLO outperforms existing models, achieving outstanding scores of 0.937 in Precision, 0.852 in Recall, and 0.642 in mAP50–95. Additionally, the model contains only 2.01 million parameters and has a computational complexity of 6.1 GFLOPs, significantly lower than other models. STAR-YOLO accomplishes a lightweight design while guaranteeing high detection accuracy, prominently demonstrating its immense potential in the diagnosis of clinical brain tumors, particularly in circumstances with constrained computing resources. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-bb924f2c8f9e45a1a55d4c230215fc652025-08-20T03:33:21ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-011310991410993010.1109/ACCESS.2025.358123411044341STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor DetectionLiyan Sun0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2145-6341Linxuan Zheng1https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2674-5704Zhiguo Xiao2Yi Xin3https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5450-9291Linqing Jiang4College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun, ChinaBrain tumors are among the deadliest malignant neoplasms worldwide, and early detection is critical for improving treatment outcomes and patient prognosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a central role in the clinical diagnosis of brain tumors due to its exceptional ability to visualize brain structures and detect tumors. However, traditional MRI detection models for brain tumors often struggle to balance high accuracy with a lightweight design. To address this challenge, this study proposes a novel model—STAR-YOLO—based on the optimization of YOLOv8n. The model refines the backbone network and enhances the C2f module within the neck network. It also integrates SimAM, a parameter-free attention mechanism, and utilizes ShapeIoU as the localization loss function. These innovations enable STAR-YOLO to achieve both high accuracy and a lightweight design. Experimental results on the Br35H public dataset show that STAR-YOLO outperforms existing models, achieving outstanding scores of 0.937 in Precision, 0.852 in Recall, and 0.642 in mAP50–95. Additionally, the model contains only 2.01 million parameters and has a computational complexity of 6.1 GFLOPs, significantly lower than other models. STAR-YOLO accomplishes a lightweight design while guaranteeing high detection accuracy, prominently demonstrating its immense potential in the diagnosis of clinical brain tumors, particularly in circumstances with constrained computing resources.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11044341/Accuracybrain tumor detectionlightweightMRISTAR-YOLO |
| spellingShingle | Liyan Sun Linxuan Zheng Zhiguo Xiao Yi Xin Linqing Jiang STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection IEEE Access Accuracy brain tumor detection lightweight MRI STAR-YOLO |
| title | STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection |
| title_full | STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection |
| title_fullStr | STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection |
| title_full_unstemmed | STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection |
| title_short | STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection |
| title_sort | star yolo a high accuracy and ultra lightweight method for brain tumor detection |
| topic | Accuracy brain tumor detection lightweight MRI STAR-YOLO |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11044341/ |
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