Brain CT image classification based on mask RCNN and attention mechanism.

Journal: Scientific reports
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Abstract

Along with the computer application technology progress, machine learning, and block-chain techniques have been applied comprehensively in various fields. The application of machine learning, and block-chain techniques into medical image retrieval, classification and auxiliary diagnosis has become one of the research hotspots at present. Brain tumor is one of the major diseases threatening human life. The number of deaths caused by these diseases is increasing dramatically every year in the world. Aiming at the classification problem of brain CT images in healthcare. We propose a Mask RCNN with attention mechanism method in this research. First, the ResNet-10 is utilized as the backbone model to extract local features of the input brain CT images. In the partial residual module, the standard convolution is substituted by deformable convolution. Then, the spatial attention mechanism and the channel attention mechanism are connected in parallel. The deformable convolution is embedded to the two modules to extract global features. Finally, the loss function is improved to further optimize the precision of target edge segmentation in the Mask RCNN branch. Finally, we make experiments on public brain CT data set, the results show that the proposed image classification fragrance can effectively refine the edge features, increase the degree of separation between target and background, and improve the classification effect.

Authors

  • Shoulin Yin
    Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
  • Hang Li
    Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
  • Lin Teng
    Software College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China.
  • Asif Ali Laghari
    Department of Computer Science, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Pakistan.
  • Ahmad Almadhor
    Department of Computer Engineering and Networks, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia.
  • Michal Gregus
    Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Odbojárov 10, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
  • Gabriel Avelino Sampedro
    Faculty of Information and Communication Studies, University of the Philippines Open University, Los Baños 4031, Philippines.