Table 1 Summary of the techniques used for tumor classification and detection.

From: Detection and classification of brain tumor using a hybrid learning model in CT scan images

References

Methodology

Dataset

Strengthen/Result

Limitation

Alamin et al.32

ResNet50V2 and Fine-tuned by attaching layers

Figshare MRI brain tumor dataset

The model is highly effective in accurately

Diagnosing brain tumors

The main shortcoming of this work is the lack of sharper images and a better DL architecture, which prevents even better performance outcomes

Takowa et al.33

Parallel deep convolutional neural network

Figshare dataset

Extracts both low-level and high-level features; the structure is accurate and efficient

The accuracy of each category of tumor is not mentioned, resizing to 32 × 32 is so small image

Kumar et al.34

Modified ResNet50 and HOG

Rembrandt Dataset

Optimal computational efficiency, low complexity, ResNet50, the proposed model will converge more quickly if identity is nearer the optimal value

Low accuracy and performance compared to existing methods. They only performed on MRI images

Fatima et al.35

Fine-tuned EfficientNetB2

CE-MRI brain tumor dataset

Generalizability using cross-validation, Improving the data appeared to have potential for improving the usefulness of the improved EffectiveNetB2.

They only performed on MRI images, high network complexity, Imbalance data, They only performed on MRI images.

Muhammad et al.36

Combination of GoogLeNet, ResNet, and Desnet121 models

Figshare dataset

Used statistical and image processing methods to improve an image’s visual quality. Methods of data augmentation reduce overfitting of the network

It is not generalizable; a more representative dataset is required, and They only performed on MRI images

Priya et al.2

Hybrid Alexnet-Gated Recurrent Unit (Alexnet-GRU)

Kaggle datasets of Brain MRI Images

While dropout layers prevent overfitting and maintain the integrity of the feature map, GRU overcomes the gradient vanishing problem and improves model performance

They only performed on MRI images, AlexNet-GRU challenges in obtaining high-quality, diverse, and annotated datasets, especially for rare cancer, to accurately label brain tumor images

Rastogi et al.7

Multi-Branch Networks with Inception Block and five-fold cross validation

Br35H dataset

Its supremacy over the existing state-of-the-art models in the field

limited data, Complex architecture, No mentioning of training and testing time, The accuracy of each category of tumor is not mentioned

Kar et al.31

Deep neural network with multi-head attention mechanism

Brain Tumor MRI 44c,

Brain Tumor MRI 17c, and “Brain Tumor Multimodal CT and

MRI

Integrates CT and MRI with multi-head attention to achieve high accuracy and robust multimodal brain tumor classification

Lacks validation on real hospital-acquired clinical datasets, limiting its generalizability to real-world settings

Loganayagi et al.37

Hybrid Deep Maxout-VGG-16 model

Figshare dataset

Combines advanced segmentation and feature extraction with DM-VGG-16 to achieve strong tumor detection accuracy on MRI

Model performance (≈ 90%) is lower than state-of-the-art and lacks multimodal validation or clinical deployment evidence

Amreen38

Proposes a multi-path CNN with varied kernel sizes and feature selection (Chi-square, mutual info, correlation) to classify brain tumors from MRI scans

Kaggle datasets of Brain MRI Images

Achieves high multiclass classification accuracy (96.03%) with fewer trainable parameters using a lightweight multi-path CNN

Needs further validation on larger clinical datasets and doesn’t incorporate multimodal imaging