Title
Toward Clinically Assisted Colorectal Polyp Recognition via Structured Cross-Modal Representation Consistency
Abstract
The colorectal polyps classification is a critical clinical examination. To improve the classification accuracy, most computer-aided diagnosis algorithms recognize colorectal polyps by adopting NarrowBand Imaging (NBI). However, the NBI usually suffers from missing utilization in real clinic scenarios since the acquisition of this specific image requires manual switching of the light mode when polyps have been detected by using White-Light (WL) images. To avoid the above situation, we propose a novel method to directly achieve accurate white-light colonoscopy image classification by conducting structured cross-modal representation consistency. In practice, a pair of multi-modal images, i.e. NBI and WL, are fed into a shared Transformer to extract hierarchical feature representations. Then a novel designed Spatial Attention Module (SAM) is adopted to calculate the similarities between class token and patch tokens for a specific modality image. By aligning the class tokens and spatial attention maps of paired NBI and WL images at different levels, the Transformer achieves the ability to keep both global and local representation consistency for the above two modalities. Extensive experimental results illustrate the proposed method outperforms the recent studies with a margin, realizing multi-modal prediction with a single Transformer while greatly improving the classification accuracy when only with WL images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-16437-8_14
MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION, MICCAI 2022, PT III
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Colorectal polyps classification, Multi-modal represntation learning, Transformer architecture
Conference
13433
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weijie Ma100.34
Ye Zhu234.12
Ruimao Zhang332518.86
Jie Yang41392157.55
Yiwen Hu501.01
Z. W. Li62432.39
Xiang Li744963.52