基于深度学习的肝包虫病超声图像分型研究

1)青海大学附属医院超声科,青海西宁 810001; 2)深圳大学医学超声图像计算实验室, 医学超声关键技术国家地方联合工程实验室,深圳大学医学部生物医学工程学院,广东深圳518060

生物医学工程; 肝包虫病; 卷积神经网络; 超声图像; 病灶分型; 视觉注意力模型; 度量学习; 迁移学习; 双分支分类网络

Ultrasound image classification of hepatic echinococcosis using deep learning
Nanjiagelie1, LI Rui2, WANG Haixia2, ZHOU Xu2, WANG Yi2, and NI Dong2

1)Department of Ultrasound, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, Xining 810001, Qinghai Province, P.R.China2)Lab of Medical Ultrasound Image Computing(MUSIC)of Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong Province, P.R.China

artificial intelligence; hepatic echinococcosis; convolutional neural network; ultrasonoscopy; lesions classification; visual attention model; metric learning; transfer learning; dual-branch classification network

DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1249.2019.06702

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肝包虫病是一种严重的地域性寄生虫病,其病灶分型主要依靠临床医生对超声图像的主观判断,疾病筛查十分耗时,且容易造成误判.提出一种基于超声图像的肝包虫病病灶智能分型方法,首先从肝脏包虫病超声图像中直接裁剪得到病灶区域图像,利用深度卷积神经网络(convolutional neural network, CNN)提取图像多尺度特征,然后结合视觉注意力模型,通过分类网络的主分支和辅助分支分别学习图像的整体和局部细节特征,最后使用度量学习来表征同类别之间样本的相似特征,实现对9种类型的包虫病病灶进行全自动分类.构建了一个18层CNN网络,通过7 000张图像完成训练,在2 000张图像上测试得到的平均准确率为82%,平均F1分数为82%.实验结果表明,该方法能有效用于肝包虫病超声图像分型.

Hepatic echinococcosis is a serious regional parasitic disease. The lesion classification mainly relies on the subjective judgment of clinicians on the ultrasonic images, which is very time-consuming and prone to miscalculation in disease screening. This study proposes an intelligent classification method for hepatic echinococcosis lesions based on the ultrasound images. Firstly, the lesion images are cropped from the hepatic echinococcosis ultrasound images directly. The deep convolutional neural network(CNN)extracts the multi-scale features. Then the multi-scale features are combined with the visual attention model to learn the global and local detail features of the image through the the main and auxiliary branches of the classification network, respectively. Finally, we use the metric learning to represent the similar features of the samples of the same category, so as to realize the automatic classification of nine types of echinococcosis lesions. An 18-layer CNN network is constructed, which is trained on 7 000 images. The average accuracy on 2 000 test images is 82% and the average F1 score is 82%. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can be effectively applied to the ultrasound image classification of hepatic echinococcosis.

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