A lightweight attention-driven YOLOv5m model for improved brain tumor detection.

Brain tumors are regarded as one of the most lethal, devastating, and aggressive diseases, significantly reducing the life expectancy of affected individuals. For this reason, in pursuit of advancing brain tumor diagnostics, this study introduces a significant enhancement to the YOLOv5m model by integrating an Enhanced Spatial Attention (ESA) layer, tailored specifically for the analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans. Traditional brain tumor detection methods, heavily reliant on expert interpretation of MRI, are fraught with challenges such as high variability and the risk of human error.