Title
Deep-reinforcement-learning-based images segmentation for quantitative analysis of gold immunochromatographic strip
Abstract
Gold immunochromatographic strip (GICS) is a widely used lateral flow immunoassay technique. A novel image segmentation method is developed in this paper for quantitative analysis of GICS based on the deep reinforcement learning (DRL), which can accurately distinguish the test line and the control line in the GICS images. The deep belief network (DBN) is employed in the deep Q network in our DRL algorithm. Meanwhile, the multi-factor learning curve is introduced in the DRL algorithm to dynamically adjust the capacity of the replay buffer and the sampling size, which leads to enhanced learning efficiency. It is worth mentioning that the states, actions, and rewards in the developed DRL algorithm are determined based on the characteristics of GICS images. Experiment results demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of the proposed DRL-based image segmentation method and show that the proposed new image segmentation method outperforms some existing image segmentation methods for quantitative analysis of GICS images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.neucom.2020.04.001
Neurocomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep reinforcement learning,Image segmentation,Deep belief network,Multi-factor learning curve,Gold immunochromatographic strip
Journal
425
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0925-2312
10
0.48
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nianyin Zeng138412.14
Han Li2110.96
Zidong Wang311003578.11
Weibo Liu452016.88
Songming Liu5100.48
Fuad E. Alsaadi61818102.89
Xiaohui Liu75042269.99