Medical applications have a massive footprint in human's day‐to‐day life. Among that, MRI has a significant role, as it incorporates a significant impact on a brain tumour. Segmenting the tumour from MRI is substantial, but it is a time‐consuming process. Both the normal and abnormal tissues found in the brain look similar, which increases the difficulty of the tumour detection process. The digital image needs to be processed to obtain an exact tumour detection result. The tumour detection process comprises five different stages, such as pre‐processing, segmentation, feature extraction, feature selection, and classification. In this proposed work, hybrid wavelet Hadamard transform and grey‐level co‐occurrence matrix are included for feature extraction. Feature selection utilises sequential forward selection, which is an easy greedy search algorithm. This algorithm chooses only the predominant features for classification. The classification uses a hybrid support vector machine and adaptive emperor penguin optimisation. The experimental analysis shows the efficiency of the proposed work in terms of accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity values by computing the true positive, false positive, true negative, and false negative.