Lesion classification and diabetic retinopathy grading by integrating softmax and pooling operators into vision transformer.

Journal: Frontiers in public health
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Diabetic retinopathy grading plays a vital role in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. In practice, this task mainly relies on manual inspection using human visual system. However, the human visual system-based screening process is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. Therefore, plenty of automated screening technique have been developed to address this task.

Authors

  • Chong Liu
    * Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P. R. China.
  • Weiguang Wang
    Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Department, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
  • Jian Lian
    School of Intelligence Engineering, Shandong Management University, Jinan, China.
  • Wanzhen Jiao