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Hauptverfasser: Kanneti, Sumanth Meenan, Shah, Aryan
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Kanneti, Sumanth Meenan
Shah, Aryan
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Shah, Aryan
contents Deep learning models have shown strong performance in medical image analysis, but deploying them in low-resource clinical environments remains difficult due to computational, memory, and power constraints. This paper presents a multi-strategy compression framework for brain tumor classification from MRI, encompassing quantization-aware training, knowledge distillation from a DenseNet-101 teacher to a compact DenseNet-32 student with low-bit post-training quantization, and Float16 post-training quantization on a lightweight MobileNetV2 backbone. Using a multi-class brain tumor MRI dataset containing glioma, meningioma, pituitary tumors, and healthy controls, we provide full experimental validation of the MobileNetV2-based pipeline, training the classifier through a three-stage transfer learning process and applying Float16 quantization via TensorFlow Lite. The DenseNet-based distillation and quantization-aware training strategies are described as complementary compression approaches within the framework, with their complete empirical evaluation reserved for future work. Experimental results on the MobileNetV2 pipeline show that the quantized model achieves 82.37 percent validation accuracy compared to the 82.20 percent full-precision baseline, reducing model size from 35.34 MB to 5.76 MB, a 6.14x compression ratio with no meaningful accuracy loss. Per-class evaluation confirms that quantization preserves diagnostic performance uniformly across all four tumor categories. These findings demonstrate that lightweight quantized models can deliver clinically viable brain tumor screening in resource-constrained healthcare settings.
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spellingShingle Quantized Machine Learning Models for Medical Imaging in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings
Kanneti, Sumanth Meenan
Shah, Aryan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep learning models have shown strong performance in medical image analysis, but deploying them in low-resource clinical environments remains difficult due to computational, memory, and power constraints. This paper presents a multi-strategy compression framework for brain tumor classification from MRI, encompassing quantization-aware training, knowledge distillation from a DenseNet-101 teacher to a compact DenseNet-32 student with low-bit post-training quantization, and Float16 post-training quantization on a lightweight MobileNetV2 backbone. Using a multi-class brain tumor MRI dataset containing glioma, meningioma, pituitary tumors, and healthy controls, we provide full experimental validation of the MobileNetV2-based pipeline, training the classifier through a three-stage transfer learning process and applying Float16 quantization via TensorFlow Lite. The DenseNet-based distillation and quantization-aware training strategies are described as complementary compression approaches within the framework, with their complete empirical evaluation reserved for future work. Experimental results on the MobileNetV2 pipeline show that the quantized model achieves 82.37 percent validation accuracy compared to the 82.20 percent full-precision baseline, reducing model size from 35.34 MB to 5.76 MB, a 6.14x compression ratio with no meaningful accuracy loss. Per-class evaluation confirms that quantization preserves diagnostic performance uniformly across all four tumor categories. These findings demonstrate that lightweight quantized models can deliver clinically viable brain tumor screening in resource-constrained healthcare settings.
title Quantized Machine Learning Models for Medical Imaging in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19207