Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 14, 1437014(2024)

Combination of CNN and Transformer for Lesion-Guided Honeycomb Lung CT Image Recognition

Bingqian Yang, Xiufang Feng*, Yunyun Dong, and Yuanrong Zhang
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  • School of Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, Jinzhong 030600, Shanxi , China
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    Honeycomb lung is a CT imaging manifestation of various advanced lung diseases, characterized by diverse cystic lesions presenting a honeycomb-like appearance. Existing computer-aided diagnosis methods struggle to effectively address the low identification accuracy caused by the varied morphology and different locations of cellular lung lesions. Therefore, a combined CNN and Transformer model guided by lesion signals is proposed for cellular lung CT image recognition. In this model, a multi-scale information enhancement module is first employed to enrich the spatial and channel information of features obtained by CNN at different scales. Simultaneously, a lesion signal generation module is used to strengthen the expression of lesion features. Subsequently, Transformer is utilized to capture long-range dependency information of features, compensating for the deficiency of CNN in extracting global information. Finally, a multi-head cross-attention mechanism is introduced to fuse feature information and obtain classification results. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves accuracies of 99.67% and 97.08% on the honeycomb lung and COVID-CT dataset, respectively. It outperforms other models, providing more precise recognition results and validating the effectiveness and generalization of the model.

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    Bingqian Yang, Xiufang Feng, Yunyun Dong, Yuanrong Zhang. Combination of CNN and Transformer for Lesion-Guided Honeycomb Lung CT Image Recognition[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(14): 1437014

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    Paper Information

    Category: Digital Image Processing

    Received: Dec. 18, 2023

    Accepted: Mar. 4, 2024

    Published Online: Jul. 8, 2024

    The Author Email: Xiufang Feng (fengxiufang@tyut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP232688

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP232688

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