Title
Global Bank: A Guided Pathway of Encoding and Decoding for Pathological Image Analysis
Abstract
The encoder-decoder architecture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is widely used in computer vision tasks and various analyses of medical images. However, extracting semantic features from regions of interest (RoIs) in pathological images remains a challenging task because RoIs of different morphologies and scales are embedded in a blurred background. Additionally, it is well known that the classic encoder-decoder architecture is vulnerable to interference from a blurred background and is thus not entirely suitable for precise analysis of pathological images. In this paper, we propose a pathway named global bank (GLB) to guide the encoder and decoder to focus more on the RoIs by providing the decoder with additional effective features of the RoIs. We extend the U-Net and feature pyramid network (FPN) with GLB and evaluate the resulting models on gland segmentation and cancer embolus detection tasks, respectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposal can significantly improve the performance of the encoder-decoder architecture. The U-Net with GLB achieves the best semantic segmentation performance on the 2015 MICCAI Gland Challenge dataset. Additionally, the FPN with GLB achieves improvements of 2% in average precision and 3.4% in recall on the embolus detection task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/BIBM47256.2019.8983091
2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Global Bank,Encoder,Decoder,CNN,RoI
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Pyramid,Encoder,Decoding methods,Recall,Machine learning,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-1868-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hansheng Li102.37
Jun Feng24416.44
Baosheng Kang300.68
Yuxin Kang402.37
Feihong Liu500.34
Wenli Hui600.68
Qirong Bo701.35
Chunbao Wang800.34
Lin Yang91291116.88
Lizhen Cui1015438.68