IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
27(7), P. 3372 - 3383
Published: April 27, 2023
Segmenting
stroke
lesions
and
assessing
the
thrombolysis
in
cerebral
infarction
(TICI)
grade
are
two
important
but
challenging
prerequisites
for
an
auxiliary
diagnosis
of
stroke.
However,
most
previous
studies
have
focused
only
on
a
single
one
tasks,
without
considering
relation
between
them.
In
our
study,
we
propose
simulated
quantum
mechanics-based
joint
learning
network
(SQMLP-net)
that
simultaneously
segments
lesion
assesses
TICI
grade.
The
correlation
heterogeneity
tasks
tackled
with
single-input
double-output
hybrid
network.
SQMLP-net
has
segmentation
branch
classification
branch.
These
branches
share
encoder,
which
extracts
shares
spatial
global
semantic
information
tasks.
Both
optimized
by
novel
loss
function
learns
intra-
inter-task
weights
these
Finally,
evaluate
public
dataset
(ATLAS
R2.0).
obtains
state-of-the-art
metrics
(Dice:70.98%
accuracy:86.78%)
outperforms
single-task
existing
advanced
methods.
An
analysis
found
negative
severity
grading
accuracy
segmentation.
Journal Of Big Data,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: April 14, 2023
Abstract
Data
scarcity
is
a
major
challenge
when
training
deep
learning
(DL)
models.
DL
demands
large
amount
of
data
to
achieve
exceptional
performance.
Unfortunately,
many
applications
have
small
or
inadequate
train
frameworks.
Usually,
manual
labeling
needed
provide
labeled
data,
which
typically
involves
human
annotators
with
vast
background
knowledge.
This
annotation
process
costly,
time-consuming,
and
error-prone.
every
framework
fed
by
significant
automatically
learn
representations.
Ultimately,
larger
would
generate
better
model
its
performance
also
application
dependent.
issue
the
main
barrier
for
dismissing
use
DL.
Having
sufficient
first
step
toward
any
successful
trustworthy
application.
paper
presents
holistic
survey
on
state-of-the-art
techniques
deal
models
overcome
three
challenges
including
small,
imbalanced
datasets,
lack
generalization.
starts
listing
techniques.
Next,
types
architectures
are
introduced.
After
that,
solutions
address
listed,
such
as
Transfer
Learning
(TL),
Self-Supervised
(SSL),
Generative
Adversarial
Networks
(GANs),
Model
Architecture
(MA),
Physics-Informed
Neural
Network
(PINN),
Deep
Synthetic
Minority
Oversampling
Technique
(DeepSMOTE).
Then,
these
were
followed
some
related
tips
about
acquisition
prior
purposes,
well
recommendations
ensuring
trustworthiness
dataset.
The
ends
list
that
suffer
from
scarcity,
several
alternatives
proposed
in
order
more
each
Electromagnetic
Imaging
(EMI),
Civil
Structural
Health
Monitoring,
Medical
imaging,
Meteorology,
Wireless
Communications,
Fluid
Mechanics,
Microelectromechanical
system,
Cybersecurity.
To
best
authors’
knowledge,
this
review
offers
comprehensive
overview
strategies
tackle
Progress in Biomedical Engineering,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
5(2), P. 022001 - 022001
Published: March 9, 2023
Abstract
The
rapid
development
of
diagnostic
technologies
in
healthcare
is
leading
to
higher
requirements
for
physicians
handle
and
integrate
the
heterogeneous,
yet
complementary
data
that
are
produced
during
routine
practice.
For
instance,
personalized
diagnosis
treatment
planning
a
single
cancer
patient
relies
on
various
images
(e.g.
radiology,
pathology
camera
images)
non-image
clinical
genomic
data).
However,
such
decision-making
procedures
can
be
subjective,
qualitative,
have
large
inter-subject
variabilities.
With
recent
advances
multimodal
deep
learning
technologies,
an
increasingly
number
efforts
been
devoted
key
question:
how
do
we
extract
aggregate
information
ultimately
provide
more
objective,
quantitative
computer-aided
decision
making?
This
paper
reviews
studies
dealing
with
question.
Briefly,
this
review
will
include
(a)
overview
current
workflows,
(b)
summarization
fusion
methods,
(c)
discussion
performance,
(d)
applications
disease
prognosis,
(e)
challenges
future
directions.
Computers in Biology and Medicine,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
177, P. 108635 - 108635
Published: May 22, 2024
Multimodal
medical
imaging
plays
a
pivotal
role
in
clinical
diagnosis
and
research,
as
it
combines
information
from
various
modalities
to
provide
more
comprehensive
understanding
of
the
underlying
pathology.
Recently,
deep
learning-based
multimodal
fusion
techniques
have
emerged
powerful
tools
for
improving
image
classification.
This
review
offers
thorough
analysis
developments
classification
tasks.
We
explore
complementary
relationships
among
prevalent
outline
three
main
schemes
networks:
input
fusion,
intermediate
(encompassing
single-level
hierarchical
attention-based
fusion),
output
fusion.
By
evaluating
performance
these
techniques,
we
insight
into
suitability
different
network
architectures
scenarios
application
domains.
Furthermore,
delve
challenges
related
architecture
selection,
handling
incomplete
data
management,
potential
limitations
Finally,
spotlight
promising
future
Transformer-based
give
recommendations
research
this
rapidly
evolving
field.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
43(6), P. 2303 - 2316
Published: Feb. 6, 2024
Lesion
segmentation
is
a
fundamental
step
for
the
diagnosis
of
acute
ischemic
stroke
(AIS).
Non-contrast
CT
(NCCT)
still
mainstream
imaging
modality
AIS
lesion
measurement.
However,
on
NCCT
challenging
due
to
low
contrast,
noise
and
artifacts.
To
achieve
accurate
NCCT,
this
study
proposes
hybrid
convolutional
neural
network
(CNN)
Transformer
with
circular
feature
interaction
bilateral
difference
learning.
It
consists
parallel
CNN
encoders,
module,
shared
decoder
learning
module.
A
new
block
particularly
designed
solve
weak
inductive
bias
problem
traditional
Transformer.
effectively
combine
features
from
we
first
design
multi-level
aggregation
module
multi-scale
in
each
encoder
then
propose
novel
containing
CNN-to-Transformer
Transformer-to-CNN
blocks.
Besides,
proposed
at
bottom
level
learn
different
information
between
contralateral
sides
brain.
The
method
evaluated
three
datasets:
public
AISD,
private
dataset
an
external
dataset.
Experimental
results
show
that
achieves
Dices
61.39%
46.74%
AISD
dataset,
respectively,
outperforming
17
state-of-the-art
methods.
volumetric
analysis
segmented
lesions
validation
imply
potential
provide
support
diagnosis.
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
53(9), P. 5826 - 5839
Published: Aug. 19, 2022
Clinically,
retinal
vessel
segmentation
is
a
significant
step
in
the
diagnosis
of
fundus
diseases.
However,
recent
methods
generally
neglect
difference
semantic
information
between
deep
and
shallow
features,
which
fail
to
capture
global
local
characterizations
images
simultaneously,
resulting
limited
performance
for
fine
vessels.
In
this
article,
transformer
(GT)
dual
attention
(DLA)
network
via
deep-shallow
hierarchical
feature
fusion
(GT-DLA-dsHFF)
are
investigated
solve
above
limitations.
First,
GT
developed
integrate
image,
effectively
captures
long-distance
dependence
pixels,
alleviating
discontinuity
blood
vessels
results.
Second,
DLA,
constructed
using
dilated
convolutions
with
varied
dilation
rates,
unsupervised
edge
detection,
squeeze-excitation
block,
proposed
extract
information,
consolidating
details
result.
Finally,
novel
(dsHFF)
algorithm
studied
fuse
features
different
scales
learning
framework,
respectively,
can
mitigate
attenuation
valid
process
fusion.
We
verified
GT-DLA-dsHFF
on
four
typical
image
datasets.
The
experimental
results
demonstrate
our
achieves
superior
against
current
detailed
discussions
verify
efficacy
three
modules.
Segmentation
diseased
show
robustness
GT-DLA-dsHFF.
Implementation
codes
will
be
available
https://github.com/YangLibuaa/GT-DLA-dsHFF.