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Fei M, Shen Z, Song Z, Wang X, Cao M, Yao L, Zhao X, Wang Q, Zhang L. Distillation of multi-class cervical lesion cell detection via synthesis-aided pre-training and patch-level feature alignment. Neural Netw 2024; 178:106405. [PMID: 38815471 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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Automated detection of cervical abnormal cells from Thin-prep cytologic test (TCT) images is crucial for efficient cervical abnormal screening using computer-aided diagnosis systems. However, the construction of the detection model is hindered by the preparation of the training images, which usually suffers from issues of class imbalance and incomplete annotations. Additionally, existing methods often overlook the visual feature correlations among cells, which are crucial in cervical lesion cell detection as pathologists commonly rely on surrounding cells for identification. In this paper, we propose a distillation framework that utilizes a patch-level pre-training network to guide the training of an image-level detection network, which can be applied to various detectors without changing their architectures during inference. The main contribution is three-fold: (1) We propose the Balanced Pre-training Model (BPM) as the patch-level cervical cell classification model, which employs an image synthesis model to construct a class-balanced patch dataset for pre-training. (2) We design the Score Correction Loss (SCL) to enable the detection network to distill knowledge from the BPM model, thereby mitigating the impact of incomplete annotations. (3) We design the Patch Correlation Consistency (PCC) strategy to exploit the correlation information of extracted cells, consistent with the behavior of cytopathologists. Experiments on public and private datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed distillation method, as well as its adaptability to various detection architectures.
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- Manman Fei
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, China.
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Stegmüller T, Abbet C, Bozorgtabar B, Clarke H, Petignat P, Vassilakos P, Thiran JP. Self-supervised learning-based cervical cytology for the triage of HPV-positive women in resource-limited settings and low-data regime. Comput Biol Med 2024; 169:107809. [PMID: 38113684 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Screening Papanicolaou test samples has proven to be highly effective in reducing cervical cancer-related mortality. However, the lack of trained cytopathologists hinders its widespread implementation in low-resource settings. Deep learning-assisted telecytology diagnosis emerges as an appealing alternative, but it requires the collection of large annotated training datasets, which is costly and time-consuming. In this paper, we demonstrate that the abundance of unlabeled images that can be extracted from Pap smear test whole slide images presents a fertile ground for self-supervised learning methods, yielding performance improvements compared to off-the-shelf pre-trained models for various downstream tasks. In particular, we propose Cervical Cell Copy-Pasting (C3P) as an effective augmentation method, which enables knowledge transfer from public and labeled single-cell datasets to unlabeled tiles. Not only does C3P outperforms naive transfer from single-cell images, but we also demonstrate its advantageous integration into multiple instance learning methods. Importantly, all our experiments are conducted on our introduced in-house dataset comprising liquid-based cytology Pap smear images obtained using low-cost technologies. This aligns with our long-term objective of deep learning-assisted telecytology for diagnosis in low-resource settings.
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- Thomas Stegmüller
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland.
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
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- Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Genève, 1205, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
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Ryu D, Bak T, Ahn D, Kang H, Oh S, Min HS, Lee S, Lee J. Deep learning-based label-free hematology analysis framework using optical diffraction tomography. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18297. [PMID: 37576294 PMCID: PMC10412892 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Hematology analysis, a common clinical test for screening various diseases, has conventionally required a chemical staining process that is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To reduce the costs of chemical staining, label-free imaging can be utilized in hematology analysis. In this work, we exploit optical diffraction tomography and the fully convolutional one-stage object detector or FCOS, a deep learning architecture for object detection, to develop a label-free hematology analysis framework. Detected cells are classified into four groups: red blood cell, abnormal red blood cell, platelet, and white blood cell. In the results, the trained object detection model showed superior detection performance for blood cells in refractive index tomograms (0.977 mAP) and also showed high accuracy in the four-class classification of blood cells (0.9708 weighted F1 score, 0.9712 total accuracy). For further verification, mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) were compared with values obtained from reference hematology equipment, with our results showing reasonable correlation in both MCV (0.905) and MCH (0.889). This study provides a successful demonstration of the proposed framework in detecting and classifying blood cells using optical diffraction tomography for label-free hematology analysis.
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- Dongmin Ryu
- Tomocube Inc., Daejeon, 34109, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Tomocube Inc., Daejeon, 34109, Republic of Korea
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- Tomocube Inc., Daejeon, 34109, Republic of Korea
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- Tomocube Inc., Daejeon, 34109, Republic of Korea
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- Tomocube Inc., Daejeon, 34109, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
- Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AIGS), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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Liang Y, Feng S, Liu Q, Kuang H, Liu J, Liao L, Du Y, Wang J. Exploring Contextual Relationships for Cervical Abnormal Cell Detection. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2023; 27:4086-4097. [PMID: 37192032 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2023.3276919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cervical abnormal cell detection is a challenging task as the morphological discrepancies between abnormal and normal cells are usually subtle. To determine whether a cervical cell is normal or abnormal, cytopathologists always take surrounding cells as references to identify its abnormality. To mimic these behaviors, we propose to explore contextual relationships to boost the performance of cervical abnormal cell detection. Specifically, both contextual relationships between cells and cell-to-global images are exploited to enhance features of each region of interest (RoI) proposal. Accordingly, two modules, dubbed as RoI-relationship attention module (RRAM) and global RoI attention module (GRAM), are developed and their combination strategies are also investigated. We establish a strong baseline by using Double-Head Faster R-CNN with a feature pyramid network (FPN) and integrate our RRAM and GRAM into it to validate the effectiveness of the proposed modules. Experiments conducted on a large cervical cell detection dataset reveal that the introduction of RRAM and GRAM both achieves better average precision (AP) than the baseline methods. Moreover, when cascading RRAM and GRAM, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. Furthermore, we show that the proposed feature-enhancing scheme can facilitate image- and smear-level classification.
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Shu T, Shi J, Zheng Y, Jiang Z, Yu L. A Key-Points Based Anchor-Free Cervical Cell Detector. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-5. [PMID: 38083177 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10341092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Cervical cell detection is crucial to cervical cytology screening at early stage. Currently most cervical cell detection methods use anchor-based pipeline to achieve the localization and classification of cells, e.g. faster R-CNN and YOLOv3. However, the anchors generally need to be pre-defined before training and the detection performance is inevitably sensitive to these pre-defined hyperparameters (e.g. number of anchors, anchor size and aspect ratios). More importantly, these preset anchors fail to conform to the cells with different morphology at inference phase. In this paper, we present a key-points based anchor-free cervical cell detector based on YOLOv3. Compared with the conventional YOLOv3, the proposed method applies a key-points based anchor-free strategy to represent the cells in the initial prediction phase instead of the preset anchors. Therefore, it can generate more desirable cell localization effect through refinement. Furthermore, PAFPN is applied to enhance the feature hierarchy. GIoU loss is also introduced to optimize the small cell localization in addition to focal loss and smooth L1 loss. Experimental results on cervical cytology ROI datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for cervical cell detection and the robustness to different liquid-based preparation styles (i.e. drop-slide, membrane-based and sedimentation).
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Dey P, Bansal B, Saini T. An emerging era of computational cytology. Diagn Cytopathol 2023; 51:270-275. [PMID: 36633016 DOI: 10.1002/dc.25101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND The significant advancement in digital imaging, data management, advanced computational power, and artificial neural network have an immense impact on the field of cytology. The amalgamation of these areas has generated a newer discipline known as computational cytology. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE In To discuss the various important aspects of computational cytology. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the different studies published in English during the last few years on computational cytology. RESULT Computational cytology is a newer and emerging discipline in pathology that deals with the patient's meta-data and digital image data to make a mathematical model to produce diagnostic interpretations and predictions. The role of the cytologist is now changing from a simple observational scientist and slide interpreter to a dynamic and integrated multi-parametric prediction-based scientist. CONCLUSION In the current stage, the cytologist must understand the situation and should have a vision of the complete scenario on computational cytology.
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- Pranab Dey
- Department of Cytology and Gynecological Pathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Cytology and Gynecological Pathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Pathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Deep learning for computational cytology: A survey. Med Image Anal 2023; 84:102691. [PMID: 36455333 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 10/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Computational cytology is a critical, rapid-developing, yet challenging topic in medical image computing concerned with analyzing digitized cytology images by computer-aided technologies for cancer screening. Recently, an increasing number of deep learning (DL) approaches have made significant achievements in medical image analysis, leading to boosting publications of cytological studies. In this article, we survey more than 120 publications of DL-based cytology image analysis to investigate the advanced methods and comprehensive applications. We first introduce various deep learning schemes, including fully supervised, weakly supervised, unsupervised, and transfer learning. Then, we systematically summarize public datasets, evaluation metrics, versatile cytology image analysis applications including cell classification, slide-level cancer screening, nuclei or cell detection and segmentation. Finally, we discuss current challenges and potential research directions of computational cytology.
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Liang Y, Yin Z, Liu H, Zeng H, Wang J, Liu J, Che N. Weakly Supervised Deep Nuclei Segmentation With Sparsely Annotated Bounding Boxes for DNA Image Cytometry. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:785-795. [PMID: 34951851 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2021.3138189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Nuclei segmentation is an essential step in DNA ploidy analysis by image-based cytometry (DNA-ICM) which is widely used in cytopathology and allows an objective measurement of DNA content (ploidy). The routine fully supervised learning-based method requires often tedious and expensive pixel-wise labels. In this paper, we propose a novel weakly supervised nuclei segmentation framework which exploits only sparsely annotated bounding boxes, without any segmentation labels. The key is to integrate the traditional image segmentation and self-training into fully supervised instance segmentation. We first leverage the traditional segmentation to generate coarse masks for each box-annotated nucleus to supervise the training of a teacher model, which is then responsible for both the refinement of these coarse masks and pseudo labels generation of unlabeled nuclei. These pseudo labels and refined masks along with the original manually annotated bounding boxes jointly supervise the training of student model. Both teacher and student share the same architecture and especially the student is initialized by the teacher. We have extensively evaluated our method with both our DNA-ICM dataset and public cytopathological dataset. Without bells and whistles, our method outperforms all existing weakly supervised entries on both datasets. Code and our DNA-ICM dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/CVIU-CSU/Weakly-Supervised-Nuclei-Segmentation.
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Allahqoli L, Laganà AS, Mazidimoradi A, Salehiniya H, Günther V, Chiantera V, Karimi Goghari S, Ghiasvand MM, Rahmani A, Momenimovahed Z, Alkatout I. Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer and Pre-Cancerous Lesions by Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:2771. [PMID: 36428831 PMCID: PMC9689914 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12112771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The likelihood of timely treatment for cervical cancer increases with timely detection of abnormal cervical cells. Automated methods of detecting abnormal cervical cells were established because manual identification requires skilled pathologists and is time consuming and prone to error. The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate the diagnostic performance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for the prediction, screening, and diagnosis of cervical cancer and pre-cancerous lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Comprehensive searches were performed on three databases: Medline, Web of Science Core Collection (Indexes = SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A & HCI Timespan) and Scopus to find papers published until July 2022. Articles that applied any AI technique for the prediction, screening, and diagnosis of cervical cancer were included in the review. No time restriction was applied. Articles were searched, screened, incorporated, and analyzed in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines. RESULTS The primary search yielded 2538 articles. After screening and evaluation of eligibility, 117 studies were incorporated in the review. AI techniques were found to play a significant role in screening systems for pre-cancerous and cancerous cervical lesions. The accuracy of the algorithms in predicting cervical cancer varied from 70% to 100%. AI techniques make a distinction between cancerous and normal Pap smears with 80-100% accuracy. AI is expected to serve as a practical tool for doctors in making accurate clinical diagnoses. The reported sensitivity and specificity of AI in colposcopy for the detection of CIN2+ were 71.9-98.22% and 51.8-96.2%, respectively. CONCLUSION The present review highlights the acceptable performance of AI systems in the prediction, screening, or detection of cervical cancer and pre-cancerous lesions, especially when faced with a paucity of specialized centers or medical resources. In combination with human evaluation, AI could serve as a helpful tool in the interpretation of cervical smears or images.
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- Leila Allahqoli
- Midwifery Department, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran 1467664961, Iran
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- Unit of Gynecologic Oncology, ARNAS “Civico-Di Cristina-Benfratelli”, Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Neyriz Public Health Clinic, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 7134814336, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand 9717853577, Iran
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- University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel School of Gynaecological Endoscopy, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 24, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Unit of Gynecologic Oncology, ARNAS “Civico-Di Cristina-Benfratelli”, Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE), University of Palermo, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran 1411713114, Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran 1591634311, Iran
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- Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 141973317, Iran
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- Reproductive Health Department, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom 3716993456, Iran
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- University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel School of Gynaecological Endoscopy, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 24, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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Xu C, Li M, Li G, Zhang Y, Sun C, Bai N. Cervical Cell/Clumps Detection in Cytology Images Using Transfer Learning. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:diagnostics12102477. [PMID: 36292166 PMCID: PMC9600700 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12102477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Cervical cancer is one of the most common and deadliest cancers among women and poses a serious health risk. Automated screening and diagnosis of cervical cancer will help improve the accuracy of cervical cell screening. In recent years, there have been many studies conducted using deep learning methods for automatic cervical cancer screening and diagnosis. Deep-learning-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models require large amounts of data for training, but large cervical cell datasets with annotations are difficult to obtain. Some studies have used transfer learning approaches to handle this problem. However, such studies used the same transfer learning method that is the backbone network initialization by the ImageNet pre-trained model in two different types of tasks, the detection and classification of cervical cell/clumps. Considering the differences between detection and classification tasks, this study proposes the use of COCO pre-trained models when using deep learning methods for cervical cell/clumps detection tasks to better handle limited data set problem at training time. To further improve the model detection performance, based on transfer learning, we conducted multi-scale training according to the actual situation of the dataset. Considering the effect of bounding box loss on the precision of cervical cell/clumps detection, we analyzed the effects of different bounding box losses on the detection performance of the model and demonstrated that using a loss function consistent with the type of pre-trained model can help improve the model performance. We analyzed the effect of mean and std of different datasets on the performance of the model. It was demonstrated that the detection performance was optimal when using the mean and std of the cervical cell dataset used in the current study. Ultimately, based on backbone Resnet50, the mean Average Precision (mAP) of the network model is 61.6% and Average Recall (AR) is 87.7%. Compared to the current values of 48.8% and 64.0% in the used dataset, the model detection performance is significantly improved by 12.8% and 23.7%, respectively.
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- Chuanyun Xu
- School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
- College of Computer and Information Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
- Correspondence: (M.L.); (G.L.)
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
- Correspondence: (M.L.); (G.L.)
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- College of Computer and Information Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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Chen T, Zheng W, Ying H, Tan X, Li K, Li X, Chen DZ, Wu J. A Task Decomposing and Cell Comparing Method for Cervical Lesion Cell Detection. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2022; 41:2432-2442. [PMID: 35349436 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2022.3163171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Automatic detection of cervical lesion cells or cell clumps using cervical cytology images is critical to computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for accurate, objective, and efficient cervical cancer screening. Recently, many methods based on modern object detectors were proposed and showed great potential for automatic cervical lesion detection. Although effective, several issues still hinder further performance improvement of such known methods, such as large appearance variances between single-cell and multi-cell lesion regions, neglecting normal cells, and visual similarity among abnormal cells. To tackle these issues, we propose a new task decomposing and cell comparing network, called TDCC-Net, for cervical lesion cell detection. Specifically, our task decomposing scheme decomposes the original detection task into two subtasks and models them separately, which aims to learn more efficient and useful feature representations for specific cell structures and then improve the detection performance of the original task. Our cell comparing scheme imitates clinical diagnosis of experts and performs cell comparison with a dynamic comparing module (normal-abnormal cells comparing) and an instance contrastive loss (abnormal-abnormal cells comparing). Comprehensive experiments on a large cervical cytology image dataset confirm the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art methods.
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Auxiliary classification of cervical cells based on multi-domain hybrid deep learning framework. Biomed Signal Process Control 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2022.103739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Chen W, Shen W, Gao L, Li X. Hybrid Loss-Constrained Lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks for Cervical Cell Classification. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22093272. [PMID: 35590961 PMCID: PMC9101629 DOI: 10.3390/s22093272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have resulted in remarkable achievements and conferred massive benefits to computer-aided systems in medical imaging. However, the worldwide usage of AI-based automation-assisted cervical cancer screening systems is hindered by computational cost and resource limitations. Thus, a highly economical and efficient model with enhanced classification ability is much more desirable. This paper proposes a hybrid loss function with label smoothing to improve the distinguishing power of lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for cervical cell classification. The results strengthen our confidence in hybrid loss-constrained lightweight CNNs, which can achieve satisfactory accuracy with much lower computational cost for the SIPakMeD dataset. In particular, ShufflenetV2 obtained a comparable classification result (96.18% in accuracy, 96.30% in precision, 96.23% in recall, and 99.08% in specificity) with only one-seventh of the memory usage, one-sixth of the number of parameters, and one-fiftieth of total flops compared with Densenet-121 (96.79% in accuracy). GhostNet achieved an improved classification result (96.39% accuracy, 96.42% precision, 96.39% recall, and 99.09% specificity) with one-half of the memory usage, one-quarter of the number of parameters, and one-fiftieth of total flops compared with Densenet-121 (96.79% in accuracy). The proposed lightweight CNNs are likely to lead to an easily-applicable and cost-efficient automation-assisted system for cervical cancer diagnosis and prevention.
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AIN ALIAS NUR, AZANI MUSTAFA WAN, AMINUDIN JAMLOS MOHD, ALKHAYYAT AHMED, SHAKIR AB RAHMAN KHAIRUL, Q. MALIK RAMI. Improvement method for cervical cancer detection: A comparative analysis. Oncol Res 2021. [DOI: 10.32604/or.2022.025897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
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