Nuclearmagnetic resonance imaging of breasts often presents complex backgrounds.Breast tumors exhibit varying sizes,uneven intensity,and indistinct boundaries.These characteristics can lead to challenges such as low a...Nuclearmagnetic resonance imaging of breasts often presents complex backgrounds.Breast tumors exhibit varying sizes,uneven intensity,and indistinct boundaries.These characteristics can lead to challenges such as low accuracy and incorrect segmentation during tumor segmentation.Thus,we propose a two-stage breast tumor segmentation method leveraging multi-scale features and boundary attention mechanisms.Initially,the breast region of interest is extracted to isolate the breast area from surrounding tissues and organs.Subsequently,we devise a fusion network incorporatingmulti-scale features and boundary attentionmechanisms for breast tumor segmentation.We incorporate multi-scale parallel dilated convolution modules into the network,enhancing its capability to segment tumors of various sizes through multi-scale convolution and novel fusion techniques.Additionally,attention and boundary detection modules are included to augment the network’s capacity to locate tumors by capturing nonlocal dependencies in both spatial and channel domains.Furthermore,a hybrid loss function with boundary weight is employed to address sample class imbalance issues and enhance the network’s boundary maintenance capability through additional loss.Themethod was evaluated using breast data from 207 patients at RuijinHospital,resulting in a 6.64%increase in Dice similarity coefficient compared to the benchmarkU-Net.Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the method over other segmentation techniques,with fewer model parameters.展开更多
在智能监控领域,实现人群计数具有重要价值,针对人群尺度不一、人群密度分布不均及遮挡等问题,提出一种多尺度多任务卷积神经网络(MMCNN)进行人群计数的方法。首先提出一种新颖的自适应人形核生成密度图描述人群信息,消除人群遮挡影响;...在智能监控领域,实现人群计数具有重要价值,针对人群尺度不一、人群密度分布不均及遮挡等问题,提出一种多尺度多任务卷积神经网络(MMCNN)进行人群计数的方法。首先提出一种新颖的自适应人形核生成密度图描述人群信息,消除人群遮挡影响;其次通过构建多尺度卷积神经网络解决人群尺度不一问题,以多任务学习机制同时估计密度图及人群密度等级,解决人群分布不均问题;最后设计一种加权损失函数,提高人群计数准确率。在UCF_CC_50和World Expo'10数据库上进行了评估,验证了自适应人形核的有效性。实验结果表明:所提算法比Sindagi等的方法 (SINDAGI V A,PATEL V M. CNN-based cascaded multi-task learning of high-level prior and density estimation for crowd counting. Proceedings of the 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance. Piscataway,NJ:IEEE,2017:1-6)在UCF_CC_50数据库上平均绝对误差(MAE)数值和均方误差(MSE)数值分别降低约1. 7和45;与Zhang等的方法(ZHANG Y,ZHOU D,CHEN S,et al. Single-image crowd counting via multi-column convolutional neural network. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Washington,DC:IEEE Computer Society,2016:589-597)相比,在World Expo'10数据库上所提算法的MAE值降低约1. 5,且在真实公共汽车数据库上仅0～3人的计数误差,表明其实用性较强。展开更多
为提高对肺炎图像目标检测算法的平均精度,针对肺炎图像中病灶的轮廓模糊、通道单一的缺点,提出抑制增长损失函数(inhibition growth loss function,IG Loss)。根据损失函数数值的变化特征自适应调整其权值,使损失函数值随step增大的项...为提高对肺炎图像目标检测算法的平均精度,针对肺炎图像中病灶的轮廓模糊、通道单一的缺点,提出抑制增长损失函数(inhibition growth loss function,IG Loss)。根据损失函数数值的变化特征自适应调整其权值,使损失函数值随step增大的项得到增强,损失函数值随step减小的项不变,引入激活函数Mish代替ReLU,减少信息的丢失。实验结果表明,在没有增加时间开销的情况下,基于该抑制增长损失函数的Faster R-CNN和R-FCN算法的AP分别提升3.8%和2.8%,验证了该抑制增长损失函数的有效性。展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Foundation of China under Grant No.61172167the Science Fund Project of Heilongjiang Province(LH2020F035).
文摘Nuclearmagnetic resonance imaging of breasts often presents complex backgrounds.Breast tumors exhibit varying sizes,uneven intensity,and indistinct boundaries.These characteristics can lead to challenges such as low accuracy and incorrect segmentation during tumor segmentation.Thus,we propose a two-stage breast tumor segmentation method leveraging multi-scale features and boundary attention mechanisms.Initially,the breast region of interest is extracted to isolate the breast area from surrounding tissues and organs.Subsequently,we devise a fusion network incorporatingmulti-scale features and boundary attentionmechanisms for breast tumor segmentation.We incorporate multi-scale parallel dilated convolution modules into the network,enhancing its capability to segment tumors of various sizes through multi-scale convolution and novel fusion techniques.Additionally,attention and boundary detection modules are included to augment the network’s capacity to locate tumors by capturing nonlocal dependencies in both spatial and channel domains.Furthermore,a hybrid loss function with boundary weight is employed to address sample class imbalance issues and enhance the network’s boundary maintenance capability through additional loss.Themethod was evaluated using breast data from 207 patients at RuijinHospital,resulting in a 6.64%increase in Dice similarity coefficient compared to the benchmarkU-Net.Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the method over other segmentation techniques,with fewer model parameters.
文摘在智能监控领域,实现人群计数具有重要价值,针对人群尺度不一、人群密度分布不均及遮挡等问题,提出一种多尺度多任务卷积神经网络(MMCNN)进行人群计数的方法。首先提出一种新颖的自适应人形核生成密度图描述人群信息,消除人群遮挡影响;其次通过构建多尺度卷积神经网络解决人群尺度不一问题,以多任务学习机制同时估计密度图及人群密度等级,解决人群分布不均问题;最后设计一种加权损失函数,提高人群计数准确率。在UCF_CC_50和World Expo'10数据库上进行了评估,验证了自适应人形核的有效性。实验结果表明:所提算法比Sindagi等的方法 (SINDAGI V A,PATEL V M. CNN-based cascaded multi-task learning of high-level prior and density estimation for crowd counting. Proceedings of the 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance. Piscataway,NJ:IEEE,2017:1-6)在UCF_CC_50数据库上平均绝对误差(MAE)数值和均方误差(MSE)数值分别降低约1. 7和45;与Zhang等的方法(ZHANG Y,ZHOU D,CHEN S,et al. Single-image crowd counting via multi-column convolutional neural network. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Washington,DC:IEEE Computer Society,2016:589-597)相比,在World Expo'10数据库上所提算法的MAE值降低约1. 5,且在真实公共汽车数据库上仅0～3人的计数误差,表明其实用性较强。
