Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism

Abstract Purpose Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world, ranking fifth in malignant tumors. The degree of differentiation can reflect the degree of malignancy. The degree of malignancy of liver cancer can be divided into three types: poorly differentiated, moderately di...

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Main Authors: Chen Chen, Cheng Chen, Mingrui Ma, Xiaojian Ma, Xiaoyi Lv, Xiaogang Dong, Ziwei Yan, Min Zhu, Jiajia Chen
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Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01919-1
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author Chen Chen
Cheng Chen
Mingrui Ma
Xiaojian Ma
Xiaoyi Lv
Xiaogang Dong
Ziwei Yan
Min Zhu
Jiajia Chen
author_facet Chen Chen
Cheng Chen
Mingrui Ma
Xiaojian Ma
Xiaoyi Lv
Xiaogang Dong
Ziwei Yan
Min Zhu
Jiajia Chen
author_sort Chen Chen
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description Abstract Purpose Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world, ranking fifth in malignant tumors. The degree of differentiation can reflect the degree of malignancy. The degree of malignancy of liver cancer can be divided into three types: poorly differentiated, moderately differentiated, and well differentiated. Diagnosis and treatment of different levels of differentiation are crucial to the survival rate and survival time of patients. As the gold standard for liver cancer diagnosis, histopathological images can accurately distinguish liver cancers of different levels of differentiation. Therefore, the study of intelligent classification of histopathological images is of great significance to patients with liver cancer. At present, the classification of histopathological images of liver cancer with different degrees of differentiation has disadvantages such as time-consuming, labor-intensive, and large manual investment. In this context, the importance of intelligent classification of histopathological images is obvious. Methods Based on the development of a complete data acquisition scheme, this paper applies the SENet deep learning model to the intelligent classification of all types of differentiated liver cancer histopathological images for the first time, and compares it with the four deep learning models of VGG16, ResNet50, ResNet_CBAM, and SKNet. The evaluation indexes adopted in this paper include confusion matrix, Precision, recall, F1 Score, etc. These evaluation indexes can be used to evaluate the model in a very comprehensive and accurate way. Results Five different deep learning classification models are applied to collect the data set and evaluate model. The experimental results show that the SENet model has achieved the best classification effect with an accuracy of 95.27%. The model also has good reliability and generalization ability. The experiment proves that the SENet deep learning model has a good application prospect in the intelligent classification of histopathological images. Conclusions This study also proves that deep learning has great application value in solving the time-consuming and laborious problems existing in traditional manual film reading, and it has certain practical significance for the intelligent classification research of other cancer histopathological images.
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spelling doaj.art-504c6b7bf169427e943c072708b4cf8f2022-12-22T01:00:06ZengBMCBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making1472-69472022-07-0122111310.1186/s12911-022-01919-1Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanismChen Chen0Cheng Chen1Mingrui Ma2Xiaojian Ma3Xiaoyi Lv4Xiaogang Dong5Ziwei Yan6Min Zhu7Jiajia Chen8College of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang UniversityCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang UniversityXinjiang Medical University Cancer HospitalXinjiang Medical University Cancer HospitalCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang UniversityXinjiang Medical University Cancer HospitalCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Xinjiang UniversityDepartment of Pathology, Karamay Central Hospital of XinJiang KaramayChangji Vocational and Technical CollegeAbstract Purpose Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world, ranking fifth in malignant tumors. The degree of differentiation can reflect the degree of malignancy. The degree of malignancy of liver cancer can be divided into three types: poorly differentiated, moderately differentiated, and well differentiated. Diagnosis and treatment of different levels of differentiation are crucial to the survival rate and survival time of patients. As the gold standard for liver cancer diagnosis, histopathological images can accurately distinguish liver cancers of different levels of differentiation. Therefore, the study of intelligent classification of histopathological images is of great significance to patients with liver cancer. At present, the classification of histopathological images of liver cancer with different degrees of differentiation has disadvantages such as time-consuming, labor-intensive, and large manual investment. In this context, the importance of intelligent classification of histopathological images is obvious. Methods Based on the development of a complete data acquisition scheme, this paper applies the SENet deep learning model to the intelligent classification of all types of differentiated liver cancer histopathological images for the first time, and compares it with the four deep learning models of VGG16, ResNet50, ResNet_CBAM, and SKNet. The evaluation indexes adopted in this paper include confusion matrix, Precision, recall, F1 Score, etc. These evaluation indexes can be used to evaluate the model in a very comprehensive and accurate way. Results Five different deep learning classification models are applied to collect the data set and evaluate model. The experimental results show that the SENet model has achieved the best classification effect with an accuracy of 95.27%. The model also has good reliability and generalization ability. The experiment proves that the SENet deep learning model has a good application prospect in the intelligent classification of histopathological images. Conclusions This study also proves that deep learning has great application value in solving the time-consuming and laborious problems existing in traditional manual film reading, and it has certain practical significance for the intelligent classification research of other cancer histopathological images.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01919-1Histopathological images of liver cancerSENetDegree of differentiation of the whole typeIntelligent classification
spellingShingle Chen Chen
Cheng Chen
Mingrui Ma
Xiaojian Ma
Xiaoyi Lv
Xiaogang Dong
Ziwei Yan
Min Zhu
Jiajia Chen
Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Histopathological images of liver cancer
SENet
Degree of differentiation of the whole type
Intelligent classification
title Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
title_full Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
title_fullStr Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
title_full_unstemmed Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
title_short Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
title_sort classification of multi differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism
topic Histopathological images of liver cancer
SENet
Degree of differentiation of the whole type
Intelligent classification
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01919-1
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