Dual attention based fine-grained leukocyte recognition for imbalanced microscopic images

摘要

Traditional clinical diagnostic aid systems for medical images are facing challenges of reliability and interpretability. Artificial intelligence has the potential to bring driving changes to disease diagnosis methods through rapid traversal of medical images and efficient classification. However, the application of artificial intelligence in the field of medical image still faces challenges. Our method combines the multiple modalities of attention which consider the most discriminative part in the images. The proposed classification method is tested on the microscopic image dataset with 40 leukocyte categories, which achieves top-1 accuracy of 84.21% and top-5 accuracy of 99.44% during the testing procedure. And experiments on the dermoscopic image dataset show that our method has good generalization ability across multiple imaging modalities.