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3D-GA-Unet: MRI image segmentation algorithm for glioma based on 3D-Ghost CNN
Lijun XU, Hui LI, Zuyang LIU, Kansong CHEN, Weixuan MA
Journal of Computer Applications    2024, 44 (4): 1294-1302.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2023050606
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Gliomas are the most common primary cranial tumors arising from cancerous changes in the glia of the brain and spinal cord, with a high proportion of malignant gliomas and a significant mortality rate. Quantitative segmentation and grading of gliomas based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images is the main method for diagnosis and treatment of gliomas. To improve the segmentation accuracy and speed of glioma, a 3D-Ghost Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) -based MRI image segmentation algorithm for glioma, called 3D-GA-Unet, was proposed. 3D-GA-Unet was built based on 3D U-Net (3D U-shaped Network). A 3D-Ghost CNN block was designed to increase the useful output and reduce the redundant features in traditional CNNs by using linear operation. Coordinate Attention (CA) block was added, which helped to obtain more image information that was favorable to the segmentation accuracy. The model was trained and validated on the publicly available glioma dataset BraTS2018. The experimental results show that 3D-GA-Unet achieves average Dice Similarity Coefficients (DSCs) of 0.863 2, 0.847 3 and 0.803 6 and average sensitivities of 0.867 6, 0.949 2 and 0.831 5 for Whole Tumor (WT), Tumour Core (TC), and Enhanced Tumour (ET) in glioma segmentation results. It is verified that 3D-GA-Unet can accurately segment glioma images and further improve the segmentation efficiency, which is of positive significance for the clinical diagnosis of gliomas.

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ShuffaceNet: face recognition neural network based on ThetaMEX global pooling
Kansong CHEN, Yuan ZHENG, Lijun XU, Zhouyu WANG, Zhe ZHANG, Fujuan YAO
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (8): 2572-2580.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022070985
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Focused on the issue that the current large-scale networks are not suitable to be applied on resource-starved mobile devices like smart phones and tablet computers, and the pooling layer will lead to the sparsity of feature map, which ultimately affect the recognition accuracy of the neural network, a lightweight face recognition neural network namely ShuffaceNet was proposed, a smooth nonlinear Log-Mean-Exp function ThetaMEX was designed, and an end-to-end trainable ThetaMEX Global Pool Layer (TGPL) was proposed, so as to reduce network parameters and improve computing speed while ensuring the accuracy of the algorithm, achieving the purpose that the network can be effectively deployed on mobile devices with limited resources. ShuffaceNet has about 3 600 parameters, and the model size is only 3.5 MB. The recognition test results on LFW (Labled Faces in the Wild), AgeDB-30 (Age Database-30) and CFP (Celebrities in Frontal Profile) face datasets show that the accuracy of ShuffaceNet reaches 99.32%, 93.17%, 94.51% respectively. Compared with the traditional networks such as MobileNetV1, SqueezeNet and Xception, the proposed network has the size reduced by 73.1%, 82.1% and 78.5% respectively, and the accuracy on AgeDB-30 dataset improved by 5.0%, 6.3% and 6.7% respectively. It can be seen that the proposed network based on ThetaMEX global pooling can improve the model accuracy.

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