Title
Handling Imbalanced Medical Image Data: A Deep-Learning-Based One-Class Classification Approach
Abstract
In clinical settings, a lot of medical image datasets suffer from the imbalance problem which hampers the detection of outliers (rare health care events), as most classification methods assume an equal occurrence of classes. In this way, identifying outliers in imbalanced datasets has become a crucial issue. To help address this challenge, one-class classification, which focuses on learning a model using samples from only a single given class, has attracted increasing attention. Previous one-class modeling usually uses feature mapping or feature fitting to enforce the feature learning process. However, these methods are limited for medical images which usually have complex features. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to enable deep learning models to optimally learn single-class-relevant inherent imaging features by leveraging the concept of imaging complexity. We investigate and compare the effects of simple but effective perturbing operations applied to images to capture imaging complexity and to enhance feature learning. Extensive experiments are performed on four clinical datasets to show that the proposed method outperforms four state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101935
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Medical image classification, Data imbalance, Deep learning, Image complexity
Journal
108
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0933-3657
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Long Gao112.04
lei zhang2403143.70
Chang Liu315952.61
Shandong Wu435523.16