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

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 differenti...

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Main Authors: Chen, C. (Author), Chen, J. (Author), Dong, X. (Author), Lv, X. (Author), Ma, M. (Author), Ma, X. (Author), Yan, Z. (Author), Zhu, M. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2022
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245 1 0 |a Classification of multi-differentiated liver cancer pathological images based on deep learning attention mechanism 
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520 3 |a 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. © 2022, The Author(s). 
650 0 4 |a Degree of differentiation of the whole type 
650 0 4 |a Histopathological images of liver cancer 
650 0 4 |a Intelligent classification 
650 0 4 |a SENet 
700 1 |a Chen, C.  |e author 
700 1 |a Chen, C.  |e author 
700 1 |a Chen, J.  |e author 
700 1 |a Dong, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Lv, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Ma, M.  |e author 
700 1 |a Ma, X.  |e author 
700 1 |a Yan, Z.  |e author 
700 1 |a Zhu, M.  |e author 
773 |t BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making