Deep learning is one of the subsets of machine learning that is widely used in artificial intelligence (AI) field such as natural language processing and machine vision. The deep convolution neural network (DCNN) extracts high-level concepts from low-level features and it is appropriate for large volumes of data. In fact, in deep learning, the high-level concepts are defined by low-level features. Previously, in optimization algorithms, the accuracy achieved for network training was less and high-cost function. In this regard, in this study, AdaptAhead optimization algorithm was developed for learning DCNN with robust architecture in relation to the high volume data. The proposed optimization algorithm was validated in multi-modality MR images of BRATS 2015 and BRATS 2016 data sets. Comparison of the proposed optimization algorithm with other commonly used methods represents the improvement of the performance of the proposed optimization algorithm on the relatively large dataset. Using the Dice similarity metric, we report accuracy results on the BRATS 2015 and BRATS 2016 brain tumor segmentation challenge dataset. Results showed that our proposed algorithm is significantly more accurate than other methods as a result of its deep and hierarchical extraction.

Image segmentation is one of the most common steps in digital image processing, classifying a digital image into different segments. The main goal of this paper is to segment brain tumors in magnetic resonance images (MRI) using deep learning. Tumors having different shapes, sizes, brightness and textures can appear anywhere in the brain. These complexities are the reasons to choose a high-capacity Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) containing more than one layer. The proposed DCNN contains two parts: architecture and learning algorithms. The architecture and the learning algorithms are used to design a network model and to optimize parameters for the network training phase, respectively. The architecture contains five convolutional layers, all using 3 × 3 kernels, and one fully connected layer. Due to the advantage of using small kernels with fold, it allows making the effect of larger kernels with smaller number of parameters and fewer computations. Using the Dice Similarity Coefficient metric, we report accuracy results on the BRATS 2016, brain tumor segmentation challenge dataset, for the complete, core, and enhancing regions as 0.90, 0.85, and 0.84 respectively. The learning algorithm includes the task-level parallelism. All the pixels of an MR image are classified using a patch-based approach for segmentation. We attain a good performance and the experimental results show that the proposed DCNN increases the segmentation accuracy compared to previous techniques.

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Edge detection is one of the most important concepts in image processing which is used as an indicator for processing and extraction of some of border characteristics at low levels, also for detection and finding objects at high levels.Due to the inherently parallel nature of edge detection algorithms, they suit well for implementation on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).First part of this paper aims to detect and retouch image edges using fuzzy inference system. In the first step RGB images converted to grayscale images. In the second step the input images are converted from uint8 class to double class. In the third step, fuzzy inference system isdefined with two inputs. Fuzzyinference system rules and membership function are applied on these two inputs. The outputwith black pixels indicatesareas with edge and the output with white pixels indicates areas without edge. Thesecond part of this paper, the performance of fuzzy edge detection algorithm is improved using GPU platformby exploiting data-level parallelism and scatter/gather parallel communication patterninMatlab environment. The experimental results show that the performance is improved for different image sizes of up to 11.8 x.

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