Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 22, 221021(2020)

Breast Cancer Histopathological Image Classification Based on Improved ResNeXt

Xuemeng Niu1, Xiaoqi Lü1,2、*, Yu Gu1,3, Baohua Zhang1, Ming Zhang1,4, Guoyin Ren1, and Jing Li1
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 0 14010, China
  • 2Institute of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 0 10051, China
  • 3College of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 4College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning 116026, China
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    In this paper, to achieve accurate automatic classification of breast cancer histopathological images, an improved convolutional neural network is proposed, and two different convolutional structures are introduced in order to improve the accuracy of histopathological image recognition by the network. Based on using deep residual network (ResNeXt) as basic network, octave convolution (OctConv) is used to replace the traditional convolutional layer to reduce the redundant features in the feature map during feature extraction stage and improve the effect of detailed feature extraction. Heterogeneous convolution (HetConv) is introduced to replace part of the traditional convolutional layers in the network, reducing model training parameters. To overcome the problem of over-fitting due to the small number of data samples, an effective data enhancement method based on the idea of image block is adopted. The experimental results demonstrate that the accuracy of the network on the four classification tasks of the network at the image level reaches 91.25%, indicating that the designed network model has a higher recognition rate and a better real-time performance.

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    Xuemeng Niu, Xiaoqi Lü, Yu Gu, Baohua Zhang, Ming Zhang, Guoyin Ren, Jing Li. Breast Cancer Histopathological Image Classification Based on Improved ResNeXt[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(22): 221021

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Apr. 3, 2020

    Accepted: Apr. 27, 2020

    Published Online: Nov. 12, 2020

    The Author Email: Lü Xiaoqi (lxiaoqi@imut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.221021

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