doi: 10.18178/ijml.2023.13.4.1146
Automated Segmentation of Cervical Cell Images Using IMBMDCR-Net
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Qinghua Li2,*
- 1School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.
- 2College of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Medical Sciences SDFMU, Jinan, China.
- Manuscript receivedSeptember 19, 2022
- revisedDecember 26, 2022
- acceptedJanuary 10, 2023
Abstract
Early screening of cervical lesions is of great significance in pathological diagnosis. Owing to the complexity of cell morphological changes and the limitations of medical images, accurate segmentation of cervical cells is still a challenging task. In this paper, an isomorphic multi-branch modulation deformable convolution residual model is proposed to extract features for enhancing the segmentation of small cells and overlapping cytoplasmic boundaries. Then the regional feature extraction, boundary box recognition, and adding a single pixel-level mask at the last level are integrated and optimized based on the cascade regional convolution neural network (Cascade R-CNN) to complete the segmentation of cervical cells for getting better accuracy. The proposed framework was evaluated on the ISBI2014 cervical cell segmentation competition public dataset. Experimental results show that the average accuracy of the network model in cervical cell segmentation is 81.1%, and the accuracy of small targets is 77%. To some extent, it can assist pathologists in screening cervical cancer in the early phase.
Keywords
- Cervical cell
- instance segmentation
- cascade RCNN
- modulation deformable convolution
- residual network
- deep learning
How to Cite
Yanjing Ding, Weiwei Yue, and Qinghua Li, "Automated Segmentation of Cervical Cell Images Using IMBMDCR-Net," International Journal of Machine Learning, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 163-172, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijml.2023.13.4.1146
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