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作者机构:Pattern Recognition Lab Department of Computer & Information Sciences Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences Nilore Islamabad45650 Pakistan Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences Nilore Islamabad45650 Pakistan Center for Mathematical Sciences Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences Nilore Islamabad45650 Pakistan Department of Computer Science Faculty of Computing and Artificial Intelligence Air University IslamabadE-9 Pakistan Perak31750 Malaysia Department of Software Korea National University of Transportation Chungju27469 Korea Republic of
出 版 物:《arXiv》 (arXiv)
年 卷 期:2023年
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主 题:Lymphocytes
摘 要:Transformers, due to their ability to learn long-range dependencies, have overcome the shortcomings of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for global perspective learning. However, their multi-head attention module only captures global-level feature representations, which is insufficient for medical images. To address this issue, we propose a Channel Boosted Hybrid Vision Transformer (CB-HVT) that uses transfer learning to generate boosted channels and employs both transformers and CNNs to analyse lymphocytes in histopathological images. The proposed CB-HVT comprises five modules to effectively identify lymphocytes. Its (i) channel generation module, uses the idea of channel boosting through transfer learning to extract diverse channels from different auxiliary learners. These boosted channels are first concatenated and ranked using an attention mechanism in the (ii) channel exploitation module. A fusion block is then utilized in the (iii) channel merging module for a gradual and systematic merging of the diverse boosted channels to improve the network’s learning representations. The CB-HVT also employs a proposal network in its (iv) region aware module followed by its (v) detection and segmentation head to accurately identify and distinguish objects, even in the regions with crowded presence and artifacts. We evaluated the proposed CB-HVT on two publicly available datasets for lymphocyte assessment in histopathological images. The results demonstrate that CB-HVT has a good generalization on unseen data therefore, it can serve as a valuable tool for pathologists. Copyright © 2023, The Authors. All rights reserved.