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Focusing on Clinically Interpretable Features: Selective Attention Regularization for Liver Biopsy Image Classification

  • Chong Yin
  • , Siqi Liu
  • , Rui Shao
  • , Pong C. Yuen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Hong Kong Baptist University

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Abstract

Liver biopsy image analysis is the gold standard for early diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) worldwide. Deep neural networks offer an effective tool for image analysis. However, when applying deep learning methods to smaller histological image datasets, the model may be distracted by dominant normal tissues and ignore critical tissue alterations that pathologists focus on. In this paper, we propose a selective attention regularization module (SAttenReg) to mimic the diagnosis process of pathologists. Specifically, to explicitly encourage the model to focus on clinically interpretable features (e.g., nuclei and fat droplets), SAttenReg learns the attention map with the regularization of clinically interpretable features. Furthermore, with the different contributions of histological features, the model can selectively focus on different histological features based on the distribution of nuclei in each instance. Experiments conducted on the in-house Liver-NAS and public Biopsy4Grading biopsy image datasets show that our method achieves superior classification performance with promising localization results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2021 - 24th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMarleen de Bruijne, Philippe C. Cattin, Stéphane Cotin, Nicolas Padoy, Stefanie Speidel, Yefeng Zheng, Caroline Essert
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages153-162
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030872397
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 27 Sep 20211 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12905 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period27/09/211/10/21

Keywords

  • Liver biopsy images
  • Selective attention regularization

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