Bioma : Jurnal Ilmiah Biologi
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2026): April 2026

MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BRAIN TUMOR TISSUE IN MRI IMAGES USING CNN AND TRANSFER LEARNING

Hilmi, Dafa Fadhilah (Unknown)
Wibawa, Aji Prasetya (Unknown)
Agustavada, Ardha Ardhana Putra (Unknown)
Sholum, Abdullah (Unknown)
Dwiyanto, Felix Andika (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
24 Apr 2026

Abstract

This study evaluates the role of computational pattern recognition as an observational method for analyzing morphological characteristics of brain tumor tissue in MRI data. A total of 6,056 labeled MRI images, including glioma, meningioma, and pituitary tumor cases, were examined. The images were standardized to maintain uniform structural representation and processed using three convolutional-based architectures: a baseline CNN, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNet-B0. Model performance was assessed using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, AUC-ROC, and a confusion matrix. The findings show variation in identification performance across tumor categories, with pituitary tumors consistently recognized, while misclassification predominantly occurred between glioma and meningioma. Models based on transfer learning achieved stronger agreement with the reference labels than the baseline CNN, with MobileNetV2 demonstrating the most stable performance. The recurrence of similar misclassification patterns across models suggests the presence of shared morphological characteristics in MRI representations of certain tumor types. Overall, the results support the use of computational image analysis as a structured observational framework that enables consistent evaluation of brain tumor tissue morphology in MRI, providing complementary insights for biological interpretation.

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Abbrev

bioma

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Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology Education Immunology & microbiology

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Jurnal Ilmiah Biologi focuses on the publication of result’s research related with the major of biology and biology education. For the major of biology, including systematics, physiology and metabolism, ecology, bioconservation, cell and developmental biology, microbiology, genetics, molecular ...