Convolutional Fourier Analysis Network (CONV-FAN-POX): A novel Time-Frequency approach for medical image analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Tulu, Cagatay Neftali | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kaya, Yasin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-27T07:33:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-27T07:33:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The recent monkeypox outbreak underscores the urgent need for improved diagnostic tools to enable swift, accurate disease detection. This study introduces CONV-FAN-POX, a novel neural architecture that integrates Fourier Analysis Network (FAN) principles into a deep learning pipeline for medical image classification. Unlike traditional models that rely solely on spatial-domain features, FAN leverages the Fourier series to enable robust modeling of quasi-periodic patterns and to capture global frequency-domain characteristics essential for accurate diagnosis. The proposed model, utilizing an EfficientNetV2 backbone, was evaluated on the MSLD2.0 dataset, achieving an average accuracy of 0.9881 and an F1-score of 0.9856 across five-fold cross-validation in a six-class setting. To validate the model's robustness and the specific contributions of the frequency-domain approach, extensive ablation studies were conducted, including a direct comparison of FAN and Dense-layer architectures, training and evaluation on the MSID dataset, and cross-dataset transfer testing. Furthermore, Explainable AI (XAI) was applied using Grad-CAM, which provides visual evidence that the FAN layer effectively prioritizes lesion-relevant features over background noise. Achieving superior performance while utilizing significantly fewer trainable parameters than conventional architectures, these results highlight CONV-FAN-POX as an efficient, interpretable, and generalizable alternative for medical image analysis, particularly in time-frequency-rich diagnostic contexts. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.bspc.2026.109698 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1746-8094 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1746-8108 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2026.109698 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/4642 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 117 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:001675342100005 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier Sci Ltd | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Biomedical Signal Processing and Control | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_20260302 | |
| dc.subject | Fourier Analysis Network | |
| dc.subject | Medical image analysis | |
| dc.subject | Deep learning | |
| dc.subject | Monkeypox | |
| dc.title | Convolutional Fourier Analysis Network (CONV-FAN-POX): A novel Time-Frequency approach for medical image analysis | |
| dc.type | Article |









