<p>Accurate classification of glioma grades from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for clinical decision-making in neuro-oncology. Although deep learning performance has been impressive with classical models, they struggle with high-dimensional medical imaging data and generalise poorly beyond their training data, especially in time- and resource-constrained settings. In light of the aforementioned challenges, we propose QuantumMedDx, a hybrid quantum–classical learning framework for classifying gliomas using MRI. The framework combines quantum feature encoding and variational quantum circuits with classical neural inference to improve diagnostic performance. The base model, QImageNet, uses amplitude-based quantum encoding for writing, entanglement-enabled parameterised quantum circuits (EPQCs) as feature extractors, and classical dense layers for classifying HGG and LGG from multimodal MRI slices. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on the BraTS 2021 benchmark dataset using a patient-aware 5-fold cross-validation protocol. Experimental results show that QuantumMedDx achieves accuracies of 94.12%, 93.30%, and 96.42%; F1-scores of 93.30% and 96.42%; and AUCs of 96.42% and 96.42%, respectively, outperforming conventional CNN, DNN, and SVM baselines. Ablation studies provide additional evidence of the performance improvements enabled by quantum Fourier transform and entanglement layers. Such results suggest that quantum–classical learning can efficiently improve feature extraction and discrimination in medical imaging, thus providing a modular and scalable route towards quantum–inspired clinical decision–support systems of the future.</p>

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Hybrid quantum–classical learning for MRI-based brain tumour diagnosis

  • A. Harshavardhan,
  • V. Chandra Shekhar Rao,
  • Y. Madhavi Reddy,
  • Subba Rao Polamuri,
  • Bhavana Jamalpur,
  • Vuyyuru Lakshma Reddy

摘要

Accurate classification of glioma grades from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for clinical decision-making in neuro-oncology. Although deep learning performance has been impressive with classical models, they struggle with high-dimensional medical imaging data and generalise poorly beyond their training data, especially in time- and resource-constrained settings. In light of the aforementioned challenges, we propose QuantumMedDx, a hybrid quantum–classical learning framework for classifying gliomas using MRI. The framework combines quantum feature encoding and variational quantum circuits with classical neural inference to improve diagnostic performance. The base model, QImageNet, uses amplitude-based quantum encoding for writing, entanglement-enabled parameterised quantum circuits (EPQCs) as feature extractors, and classical dense layers for classifying HGG and LGG from multimodal MRI slices. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on the BraTS 2021 benchmark dataset using a patient-aware 5-fold cross-validation protocol. Experimental results show that QuantumMedDx achieves accuracies of 94.12%, 93.30%, and 96.42%; F1-scores of 93.30% and 96.42%; and AUCs of 96.42% and 96.42%, respectively, outperforming conventional CNN, DNN, and SVM baselines. Ablation studies provide additional evidence of the performance improvements enabled by quantum Fourier transform and entanglement layers. Such results suggest that quantum–classical learning can efficiently improve feature extraction and discrimination in medical imaging, thus providing a modular and scalable route towards quantum–inspired clinical decision–support systems of the future.