scholarly journals Automatic classification of ovarian cancer types from cytological images using deep convolutional neural networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao Wu ◽  
Chuanbo Yan ◽  
Huiqiang Liu ◽  
Qian Liu

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynecologic malignancies. Accurate classification of ovarian cancer types (serous carcinoma, mucous carcinoma, endometrioid carcinoma, transparent cell carcinoma) is an essential part in the different diagnosis. Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) can provide useful advice for pathologists to determine the diagnosis correctly. In our study, we employed a Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) based on AlexNet to automatically classify the different types of ovarian cancers from cytological images. The DCNN consists of five convolutional layers, three max pooling layers, and two full reconnect layers. Then we trained the model by two group input data separately, one was original image data and the other one was augmented image data including image enhancement and image rotation. The testing results are obtained by the method of 10-fold cross-validation, showing that the accuracy of classification models has been improved from 72.76 to 78.20% by using augmented images as training data. The developed scheme was useful for classifying ovarian cancers from cytological images.

Author(s):  
D. Wittich ◽  
F. Rottensteiner

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Domain adaptation (DA) can drastically decrease the amount of training data needed to obtain good classification models by leveraging available data from a source domain for the classification of a new (target) domains. In this paper, we address deep DA, i.e. DA with deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), a problem that has not been addressed frequently in remote sensing. We present a new method for semi-supervised DA for the task of pixel-based classification by a CNN. After proposing an encoder-decoder-based fully convolutional neural network (FCN), we adapt a method for adversarial discriminative DA to be applicable to the pixel-based classification of remotely sensed data based on this network. It tries to learn a feature representation that is domain invariant; domain-invariance is measured by a classifier’s incapability of predicting from which domain a sample was generated. We evaluate our FCN on the ISPRS labelling challenge, showing that it is close to the best-performing models. DA is evaluated on the basis of three domains. We compare different network configurations and perform the representation transfer at different layers of the network. We show that when using a proper layer for adaptation, our method achieves a positive transfer and thus an improved classification accuracy in the target domain for all evaluated combinations of source and target domains.</p>


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 764
Author(s):  
Zhiwen Huang ◽  
Quan Zhou ◽  
Xingxing Zhu ◽  
Xuming Zhang

In many medical image classification tasks, there is insufficient image data for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to overcome the over-fitting problem. The light-weighted CNNs are easy to train but they usually have relatively poor classification performance. To improve the classification ability of light-weighted CNN models, we have proposed a novel batch similarity-based triplet loss to guide the CNNs to learn the weights. The proposed loss utilizes the similarity among multiple samples in the input batches to evaluate the distribution of training data. Reducing the proposed loss can increase the similarity among images of the same category and reduce the similarity among images of different categories. Besides this, it can be easily assembled into regular CNNs. To appreciate the performance of the proposed loss, some experiments have been done on chest X-ray images and skin rash images to compare it with several losses based on such popular light-weighted CNN models as EfficientNet, MobileNet, ShuffleNet and PeleeNet. The results demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our method in terms of classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 28-1-28-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuki Endo ◽  
Masayuki Tanaka ◽  
Masatoshi Okutomi

Classification of degraded images is very important in practice because images are usually degraded by compression, noise, blurring, etc. Nevertheless, most of the research in image classification only focuses on clean images without any degradation. Some papers have already proposed deep convolutional neural networks composed of an image restoration network and a classification network to classify degraded images. This paper proposes an alternative approach in which we use a degraded image and an additional degradation parameter for classification. The proposed classification network has two inputs which are the degraded image and the degradation parameter. The estimation network of degradation parameters is also incorporated if degradation parameters of degraded images are unknown. The experimental results showed that the proposed method outperforms a straightforward approach where the classification network is trained with degraded images only.


Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1263
Author(s):  
Zhaojun Wang ◽  
Jiangning Wang ◽  
Congtian Lin ◽  
Yan Han ◽  
Zhaosheng Wang ◽  
...  

With the rapid development of digital technology, bird images have become an important part of ornithology research data. However, due to the rapid growth of bird image data, it has become a major challenge to effectively process such a large amount of data. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown great potential and effectiveness in a variety of tasks regarding the automatic processing of bird images. However, no research has been conducted on the recognition of habitat elements in bird images, which is of great help when extracting habitat information from bird images. Here, we demonstrate the recognition of habitat elements using four DCNN models trained end-to-end directly based on images. To carry out this research, an image database called Habitat Elements of Bird Images (HEOBs-10) and composed of 10 categories of habitat elements was built, making future benchmarks and evaluations possible. Experiments showed that good results can be obtained by all the tested models. ResNet-152-based models yielded the best test accuracy rate (95.52%); the AlexNet-based model yielded the lowest test accuracy rate (89.48%). We conclude that DCNNs could be efficient and useful for automatically identifying habitat elements from bird images, and we believe that the practical application of this technology will be helpful for studying the relationships between birds and habitat elements.


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