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CMRA-DETR: a lightweight and high-accuracy detection framework for MRI-based brain tumor identification.

Cai Weng1,2, Bowei Huang2, Jinghui Chen3

  • 1The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

Frontiers in Medicine
|May 20, 2026
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This study introduces CMRA-DETR, a novel AI model for detecting brain tumors in MRI scans. It achieves high accuracy and efficiency, outperforming existing methods for improved AI-assisted diagnosis.

Area of Science:

  • Medical imaging analysis
  • Artificial intelligence in oncology
  • Deep learning for medical diagnosis

Background:

  • Brain tumor detection in MRI is challenging due to low contrast, indistinct boundaries, and irregular shapes.
  • Existing real-time detection transformers (RT-DETR) optimized for natural images struggle with brain tumor MRI specifics.
  • Limitations include poor local texture perception, neglect of feature magnitude, and weak spatial continuity modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a lightweight, high-accuracy detection framework for brain tumors in MRI.
  • To address the domain-specific limitations of RT-DETR in brain tumor detection.
  • To propose CMRA-DETR (CSP-MambaOut with Retention and Magnitude-Aware Attention for Real-Time Detection Transformer) for enhanced performance.

Main Methods:

Keywords:
RT-DETRartificial intelligencebrain tumormagnetic resonance imagingobject detection

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  • Introduced a CSP-MambaOut backbone for improved local texture perception.
  • Incorporated an AIFI-MALA module with magnitude-aware linear attention to address distributional smoothing.
  • Utilized a RetBlockC3 module with spatial retention for irregular tumor morphology.
  • Trained and evaluated on 5,731 internal MRI images and the external BRISC dataset.

Main Results:

  • CMRA-DETR achieved 95.5% precision and 95.7% recall on the internal test set.
  • Achieved mAP@50 of 97.9% and mAP@50-95 of 82.6% on the internal test set.
  • Reduced parameters by 37.7% and GFLOPs by 30.9% compared to the baseline.
  • Demonstrated strong cross-dataset generalization on the BRISC dataset (mAP@50 = 96.6%).

Conclusions:

  • CMRA-DETR offers a superior balance of accuracy, lightweight design, and inference efficiency for brain tumor detection.
  • The model shows significant potential for AI-assisted diagnosis in resource-constrained clinical settings.
  • Architectural adaptations effectively address the challenges of brain tumor MRI analysis.