Cervical Histopathology Image Classification Using Ensembled Transfer Learning

Chen Li, Dan Xue, Fanjie Kong, Zhijie Hu, Hao Chen, Yudong Yao, Hongzan Sun, Le Zhang, Jinpeng Zhang, Tao Jiang, Jianying Yuan, Ning Xu

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Abstract

In recent years, Transfer Learning makes a great breakthrough in the field of machine learning, and the use of transfer learning technology in Cervical Histopathology Image Classification (CHIC) becomes a new research domain. In this paper, we propose an Ensembled Transfer Learning (ETL) framework to classify well, moderately and poorly differentiated cervical histopathology images. In this ETL framework, Inception-V3 and VGG-16 based transfer learning structures are first built up. Then, a fine-tuning approach is applied to extract effective deep learning features from these two structures. Finally, a late fusion based ensemble learning strategy is designed for the final classification. In the experiment, a practical dataset with 100 VEGF stained cervical histopathology images is applied to test the proposed ETL method in the CHIC task, and an average accuracy of 80% is achieved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technology in Biomedicine, 2019
EditorsEwa Pietka, Pawel Badura, Jacek Kawa, Wojciech Wieclawek
Pages26-37
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event7th International Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, ITIB 2019 - Kamień Śląski, Poland
Duration: 18 Jun 201920 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1011
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, ITIB 2019
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKamień Śląski
Period18/06/1920/06/19

Keywords

  • Cervical cancer
  • Classification
  • Deep learning
  • Differentiation stages
  • Ensemble learning
  • Histopathology image
  • Transfer learning

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