Department of Colorectal SurgeryThe Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510655 China.
Department of RadiologyThe Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou 510655 China.
IEEE J Transl Eng Health Med. 2022 Nov 21;11:54-59. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2022.3224021. eCollection 2023.
Deep learning facilitates complex medical data analysis and is increasingly being explored in colorectal cancer diagnostics. However, the training cost of the deep learning model limits its real-world medical utility. In this study, we present a composite network that combines deep learning and unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm (RK-net) for automatic processing of medical images. RK-net was more efficient in image refinement compared with manual screening and annotation. The training of a deep learning model for colorectal cancer diagnosis was accelerated by two times with utilization of RK-net-processed images. Better performance was observed in training loss and accuracy achievement as well. RK-net could be useful to refine medical images of the ever-expanding quantity and assist in subsequent construction of the artificial intelligence model.
深度学习促进了复杂医学数据分析,并在结直肠癌诊断中得到了越来越多的探索。然而,深度学习模型的训练成本限制了其在实际医疗中的应用。在这项研究中,我们提出了一种复合网络,将深度学习和无监督 K-均值聚类算法(RK-net)相结合,用于自动处理医学图像。与手动筛选和标注相比,RK-net 更有效地对图像进行了细化。利用 RK-net 处理后的图像,加速了用于结直肠癌诊断的深度学习模型的训练。在训练损失和准确性方面也取得了更好的表现。RK-net 可用于细化不断增加的医学图像数量,并有助于后续构建人工智能模型。