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A brain tumour is one of the major reasons for death in humans, and it is the tenth most common type of tumour that affects people of all ages. However, if detected early, it is one of the most treatable types of tumours. Brain tumours are classified using biopsy, which is not usually performed before definitive brain surgery. An image classification technique for tumour diseases is important for accelerating the treatment process and avoiding surgery and errors from manual diagnosis by radiologists. The advancement of technology and machine learning (ML) can assist radiologists in tumour diagnostics using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images without invasive procedures. This work introduced a new hybrid CNN-based architecture to classify three brain tumour types through MRI images. The method suggested in this paper uses hybrid deep learning classification based on CNN with two methods. The first method combines a pre-trained Google-Net model of the CNN algorithm for feature extraction with SVM for pattern classification. The second method integrates a finely tuned Google-Net with a soft-max classifier. The proposed approach was evaluated using MRI brain images that contain a total of 1426 glioma images, 708 meningioma images, 930 pituitary tumour images, and 396 normal brain images. The reported results showed that an accuracy of 93.1% was achieved from the finely tuned Google-Net model. However, the synergy of Google-Net as a feature extractor with an SVM classifier improved recognition accuracy to 98.1%.

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Pedestrian detection from a drone-based images has many potential applications such as searching for missing persons, surveillance of illegal immigrants, and monitoring of critical infrastructure. However, it is considered as a very challenge computer vision problem due to the variations in camera point of view, distance from pedestrian, changes in illuminations and weather conditions, variation in the surrounding objects, as well as present of human-like objects. Recently, deep learningbased models are getting more attention, and they have proven a great success in many object detection problems such as the detection of faces, breast masses, and vehicles. As such, this work aims to develop a deep learning-based model that will be applied for the problem of pedestrian detection from a drone-based images. Particularly, faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) will be used to search for the present of a pedestrian inside the captured drone-based images. To assess the performances, a total of 1500 images were collected by S30W drone and these images were captured at different places, with various views and weather conditions, and at daytime and night-time. Results show that Faster R-CNN was able to achieve a promising result with 98% precision, 99% recall, and 98% F1 measure. Further analysis has been conducted by comparing the outcomes of Faster R-CNN with YOLO deep model on UAV123 publicly available dataset. The reported results indicated that both detection models almost reported very similar results.