Gated Channel Attention Network for Cataract Classification on AS-OCT Image

Zunjie Xiao, Xiaoqing Zhang, Risa Higashita, Yan Hu, Jin Yuan, Wan Chen, Jiang Liu

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Abstract

Nuclear cataract (NC) is the leading cause of blindness and vision impairment globally. Accurate NC classification is significant for clinical NC diagnosis. Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) is a non-contact, high-resolution, objective imaging technique, which is widely used in diagnosing ophthalmic diseases. Clinical studies have shown that there is a significant correlation between the pixel density of the lens region on AS-OCT images and NC severity levels; however, automatic NC classification on AS-OCT images has not been seriously studied. Motivated by clinical research, this paper proposes a gated channel attention network (GCA-Net) to classify NC severity levels automatically. In the GCA-Net, we design a gated channel attention block by fusing the clinical priority knowledge, in which a gated layer is designed to filter out abundant features and a Softmax layer is used to build the weakly interacting for channels. We use a clinical AS-OCT image dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of our GCA-Net. The results showed that the proposed GCA-Net achieves 94.3% in accuracy and outperformed strong baselines and state-of-the-art attention-based networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 28th International Conference, ICONIP 2021, Proceedings
EditorsTeddy Mantoro, Minho Lee, Media Anugerah Ayu, Kok Wai Wong, Achmad Nizar Hidayanto
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages357-368
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030922375
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 8 Dec 202112 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13110 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/12/2112/12/21

Keywords

  • AS-OCT
  • Deep learning
  • Gated channel attention
  • Nuclear cataract

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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