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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Zhang, Liquna | Chen, Kea | Han, Lina; b | Zhuang, Yana | Hua, Zhanc | Li, Chengc | Lin, Jianglia; *
Affiliations: [a] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China | [b] Highong Intellimage Medical Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd, Tianjin, China | [c] China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Jiangli Lin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China. Tel.: +86 13981911859; Fax: +86 028 85416050; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: BACKGROUND:Calcification is an important criterion for classification between benign and malignant thyroid nodules. Deep learning provides an important means for automatic calcification recognition, but it is tedious to annotate pixel-level labels for calcifications with various morphologies. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to improve accuracy of calcification recognition and prediction of its location, as well as to reduce the number of pixel-level labels in model training. METHODS:We proposed a collaborative supervision network based on attention gating (CS-AGnet), which was composed of two branches: a segmentation network and a classification network. The reorganized two-stage collaborative semi-supervised model was trained under the supervision of all image-level labels and few pixel-level labels. RESULTS:The results show that although our semi-supervised network used only 30% (289 cases) of pixel-level labels for training, the accuracy of calcification recognition reaches 92.1%, which is very close to 92.9% of deep supervision with 100% (966 cases) pixel-level labels. The CS-AGnet enables to focus the model’s attention on calcification objects. Thus, it achieves higher accuracy than other deep learning methods. CONCLUSIONS:Our collaborative semi-supervised model has a preferable performance in calcification recognition, and it reduces the number of manual annotations of pixel-level labels. Moreover, it may be of great reference for the object recognition of medical dataset with few labels.
Keywords: Thyroid nodule, calcification recognition, deep learning, attention mechanism, semi supervision, collaborative supervision.
DOI: 10.3233/XST-200740
Journal: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1123-1139, 2020
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