A Multi-Scale Self-Attention Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Retrieval

Ming Zeng, Jiansheng Fang, Hanpei Miao, Tianyang Zhang, Jiang Liu

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Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a complication due to diabetes, is a common cause of progressive damage to the retina. The mass screening of populations for DR is time-consuming. Therefore, computerized diagnosis is of great significance in the clinical practice, which providing evidence to assist clinicians in decision making. Specifically, hemorrhages, microaneurysms, hard exudates, soft exudates, and other lesions are verified to be closely associated with DR. These lesions, however, are scattered in different positions and sizes in fundus images, the internal relation of which are hard to be reserved in the ultimate features due to a large number of convolution layers that reduce the detail characteristics. In this paper, we present a deep-learning network with a multi-scale self-attention module to aggregate the global context to learned features for DR image retrieval. The multi-scale fusion enhances, in terms of scale, the efficacious latent relation of different positions in features explored by the self-attention. For the experiment, the proposed network is validated on the Kaggle DR dataset, and the result shows that it achieves state-of-the-art performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICCCV 2021 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Control and Computer Vision
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages101-106
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450390477
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Aug 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on Control and Computer Vision, ICCCV 2021 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 13 Aug 202115 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Control and Computer Vision, ICCCV 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period13/08/2115/08/21

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Image retrieval
  • Self-attention

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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