Title
Biomedical Image Segmentation by Retina-Like Sequential Attention Mechanism Using only a Few Training Images.
Abstract
In this paper we propose a novel deep learning-based algorithm for biomedical image segmentation which uses a sequential attention mechanism able to shift the focus of attention across the image in a selective way, allowing subareas which are more difficult to classify to be processed at increased resolution. The spatial distribution of class information in each subarea is learned using a retina-like representation where resolution decreases with distance from the center of attention. The final segmentation is achieved by averaging class predictions over overlapping subareas, utilizing the power of ensemble learning to increase segmentation accuracy. Experimental results for semantic segmentation task for which only a few training images are available show that a CNN using the proposed method outperforms both a patch-based classification CNN and a fully convolutional-based method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-32692-0_33
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image segmentation,Attention,Retina,iPS cells
Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Ensemble learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
11861
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shohei Hayashi100.34
Bisser Raytchev221233.11
Toru Tamaki312030.21
Kazufumi Kaneda443986.44