Multiscale Rotation-Invariant Convolutional Neural Networks for Lung Texture Classification.

Journal: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
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Abstract

We propose a new multiscale rotation-invariant convolutional neural network (MRCNN) model for classifying various lung tissue types on high-resolution computed tomography. MRCNN employs Gabor-local binary pattern that introduces a good property in image analysis-invariance to image scales and rotations. In addition, we offer an approach to deal with the problems caused by imbalanced number of samples between different classes in most of the existing works, accomplished by changing the overlapping size between the adjacent patches. Experimental results on a public interstitial lung disease database show a superior performance of the proposed method to state of the art.

Authors

  • Qiangchang Wang
  • Yuanjie Zheng
  • Gongping Yang
  • Weidong Jin
  • Xinjian Chen
    Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization (MIVAP) Lab, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
  • Yilong Yin