“…With the rise of convolutional neural network (CNN) deep learning model architectures since 2012, in addition to emerging advanced computational resources, such as GPUs and TPUs, during the past decade, several methods have been proposed for the classification of brain tumors based on the finetuning of the existing state-of-the-art CNN models, such as AlexNet, VGG16, ResNets, Inception, DenseNets, and Xception, which had already been found to be successful for various computer vision tasks [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. These aforementioned pretrained CNN models based on localized convolutions demonstrated excellent performance in brain tumor classification across different datasets [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ]. In a recent study, variational autoencoders, along with generative adversarial networks, were used for synthetic data generation, and ResNet50 was used for tumor classification [ 18 ].…”