Medical Image Classification Algorithm Based on Visual Attention Mechanism-MCNN

• Published in: Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity Vol. 2021; no. 1; p. 6280690
• Main Authors: An, Fengping, Li, Xiaowei, Ma, Xingmin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Hindawi 2021; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Accuracy; Algorithms; Attention - physiology; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - classification; Breast Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Classification; Deep learning; Discriminant analysis; Female; Genetic algorithms; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - classification; Lung cancer; Lung Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Machine learning; Medical imaging; Methods; Neural networks; Neural Networks, Computer; Support vector machines
• ISSN: 1942-0900; 1942-0994; 1942-0994
• DOI: 10.1155/2021/6280690

Due to the complexity of medical images, traditional medical image classification methods have been unable to meet the actual application needs. In recent years, the rapid development of deep learning theory has provided a technical approach for solving medical image classification. However, deep learning has the following problems in the application of medical image classification. First, it is impossible to construct a deep learning model with excellent performance according to the characteristics of medical images. Second, the current deep learning network structure and training strategies are less adaptable to medical images. Therefore, this paper first introduces the visual attention mechanism into the deep learning model so that the information can be extracted more effectively according to the problem of medical images, and the reasoning is realized at a finer granularity. It can increase the interpretability of the model. Additionally, to solve the problem of matching the deep learning network structure and training strategy to medical images, this paper will construct a novel multiscale convolutional neural network model that can automatically extract high-level discriminative appearance features from the original image, and the loss function uses the Mahalanobis distance optimization model to obtain a better training strategy, which can improve the robust performance of the network model. The medical image classification task is completed by the above method. Based on the above ideas, this paper proposes a medical classification algorithm based on a visual attention mechanism-multiscale convolutional neural network. The lung nodules and breast cancer images were classified by the method in this paper. The experimental results show that the accuracy of medical image classification in this paper is not only higher than that of traditional machine learning methods but also improved compared with other deep learning methods, and the method has good stability and robustness.