Table 11 Comparison with other State-of-the-Art Methodologies.

From: XcepFusion for brain tumor detection using a hybrid transfer learning framework with layer pruning and freezing

References

Methodology

Dataset

Classification scope

Accuracy

Agarwal et al. (2024)20

Inception V3

Figshare “Brain Tumor” MRI dataset

Multi-class (glioma / meningioma / pituitary / healthy)

0.9889

Agarwal et al. (2024)20

Multi-Path CNN

Figshare “Brain Tumor” MRI dataset

Multi-class (glioma / meningioma / pituitary / healthy)

0.9600

Malakouti et al. (2024)36

LightGBM + Transfer Learning

MRI tumor classification dataset

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9570

Pande et al. (2024)47

INDEMNIFIER

Diverse MRIs (various sources)

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9730

Yoon et al. (2025)48

PDCNN

MRI (hybrid ensemble)

Multi-class (tumor-type & healthy)

0.9485

Malebary et al. (2024)49

Multi-Layer Hybrid U-Net + CNN

MRI segmentation/classification dataset

Multi-class + segmentation

0.9700

Kaur et al. (2025)50

Transfer-Learning Optimized ResNet152

MRI brain tumor classification dataset

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9853

Nizamani et al. (2023)51

FE1-HU-NET

MRI tumor segmentation + classification dataset

Multi-class + segmentation

0.9870

Nizamani et al. (2023)51

FE2-HU-NET

MRI tumor segmentation + classification dataset

Multi-class + segmentation

0.9860

Nizamani et al. (2023)51

FE3-HU-NET

MRI tumor segmentation + classification dataset

Multi-class + segmentation

0.9890

Nizamani et al. (2023)51

FE4-HU-NET

MRI tumor segmentation + classification dataset

Multi-class + segmentation

0.9760

Shoaib et al. (2024)52

DenseNet201 + PCA + SVM

MRI tumor classification dataset

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9800

Shoaib et al. (2024)52

DenseNet201 + PCA + MLP

MRI tumor classification dataset

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9800

Tiwari et al. (2024)53

ANFIS-F-DBN

MRI brain tumor classification dataset

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9000

Khushi et al. (2023)54

AlexNet architecture with SGD optimiser

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020 (Kaggle)

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9879

XcepFusion (All CNN layers frozen)

CNN-SVM

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020 (Kaggle)

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9833

CNN-DT

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9017

CNN-KNN

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9850

CNN-RF

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9750

CNN-LR

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9900

XcepFusion (Pruned CNN layers)

CNN-SVM

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9833

CNN-DT

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9017

CNN-KNN

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9883

CNN-RF

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9683

CNN-LR

BR35H: Brain–Tumor–Detection 2020

Binary (tumor vs. non-tumor)

0.9900

  1. The dataset names have been corrected to the most precisely identified publicly available dataset for each work.Classification scope is clearly specified (binary vs. multi-class, segmentation or classification).