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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2022

Object Detection in Medical Images Based on Hierarchical Transformer and Mask Mechanism.

Yuntao Shou, Tao Meng, Wei Ai, Canhao Xie, Haiyan Liu, Yina Wang

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Yuntao ShouSchool of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410082, Hunan, China.
Tao MengSchool of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410082, Hunan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9787-2002
Wei AiSchool of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410082, Hunan, China.
Canhao XieSchool of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410082, Hunan, China.
Haiyan LiuCollege of Information Engineering, Changsha Medical University, Changsha 410219, Hunan, China.
Yina WangDepartment of VIP Medical Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, Guangzhou 510630, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3667-4096

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Abstract

The object detection task in the medical field is challenging in terms of classification and regression. Due to its crucial applications in computer-aided diagnosis and computer-aided detection techniques, an increasing number of researchers are transferring the object detection techniques to the medical field. However, in existing work on object detection, researchers do not consider the low resolution of medical images, the high amount of noise, and the small size of the objects to be detected. Based on this, this paper proposes a new algorithmic model called the MS Transformer, where a self-supervised learning approach is used to perform a random mask on the input image to reconstruct the input features, learn a richer feature vector, and filter out excessive noise. To focus the model on the small objects that are being detected, the hierarchical transformer model is introduced in this paper, and a sliding window with a local self-attention mechanism is used to give a higher attention score to the small objects to be detected. Finally, a single-stage object detection framework is used to predict the sequence of sets at the location of the bounding box and the class of objects to be detected. On the DeepLesion and BCDD benchmark dataset, the model proposed in this paper achieves better performance improvement on multiple evaluation metric categories.

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