แนวคิดหลัก
A deep transfer learning-based model that combines DenseNet with attention mechanisms achieves significantly improved classification accuracy for breast cancer pathological images compared to previous approaches.
บทคัดย่อ
The paper proposes a breast cancer pathological image classification method based on deep transfer learning. The key points are:
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The method uses the DenseNet network architecture and integrates an attention mechanism (Squeeze-and-Excitation module) to enhance feature extraction and fusion.
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The model undergoes a two-stage transfer learning process:
- First, it is pre-trained on the large-scale ImageNet dataset to learn basic image features.
- Then, it is further fine-tuned using a lung cancer dataset (LC2500) to capture more relevant features for medical images.
- Finally, the model is trained on the preprocessed and augmented BreakHis breast cancer dataset.
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Experiments on the BreakHis dataset show that the proposed method achieves classification accuracies of over 84% on the test set, outperforming the baseline DenseNet and DenseNet+SE models by 2-6 percentage points.
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The transfer learning approach helps address the challenge of limited medical image data, improving training efficiency and the model's ability to generalize.
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While the model parameters and size are slightly higher than the baselines, the significant accuracy improvements make it a promising approach for assisting physicians in breast cancer diagnosis.
สถิติ
The BreakHis dataset contains 7,909 breast cancer pathological images, including 2,480 benign and 5,429 malignant images, obtained at 40×, 100×, 200×, and 400× magnification levels.
The dataset was preprocessed through color normalization and data augmentation, resulting in a 5-fold increase in the dataset size.
คำพูด
"Transfer learning is a process of leveraging knowledge learned from one domain (source domain) to aid learning in another domain (target domain) by exploiting similarities between data, tasks, or models."
"By introducing the squeeze-and-excitation (SE) operation on top of the DenseNet architecture, the network has been improved to achieve both spatial feature fusion and learning relationships between feature channels, further enhancing network performance."