Accurate stroke area classification using extreme gradient boosting with multi-feature extraction

Abstract

Stroke, one of the most common neurological disorders leading to long-term disability and mortality, requires accurate detection of affected brain regions for timely treatment planning. However, conventional deep learning models face challenges in achieving precise segmentation and robust classification due to noisy inputs, weak feature representation, and poor generalization. To address these gaps, this study introduces a hybrid framework that integrates the ConvNeXt architecture for stroke region segmentation with XGBoost based classification, strengthened through three complementary feature extraction methods: local binary patterns (LBP), adaptive threshold directional binary gradient matrix (AT-DBGM), and wavelet packet transform (WPT). These methods capture textural, directional, and multi resolution features, which are concatenated into a stacked vector and classified using XGBoost. Preprocessing steps, including normalization and resizing, ensure improved input consistency. Experimental evaluations on benchmark stroke imaging datasets show that the proposed framework achieves 98.56% Dice similarity coefficient (DSC), 12.96 mm Hausdorff distance (HD), 99.12% accuracy, 98.69% sensitivity, 99.06% specificity, 98.98% precision, and 98.85% F1-score.