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Biomedical image segmentation and classification are critical components in a computer-aided diagnosis system. However, various deep convolutional neural networks are trained by a single task, ignoring the potential contribution of mutually performing multiple tasks. In this paper, we propose a cascaded unsupervised-based strategy to boost the supervised CNN framework for automated white blood cell (WBC) and skin lesion segmentation and classification, called CUSS-Net. Our proposed CUSS-Net consists of an unsupervised-based strategy (US) module, an enhanced segmentation network named E-SegNet, and a mask-guided classification network called MG-ClsNet. On the one hand, the proposed US module produces coarse masks that provide a prior localization map for the proposed E-SegNet to enhance it in locating and segmenting a target object accurately. On the other hand, the enhanced coarse masks predicted by the proposed E-SegNet are then fed into the proposed MG-ClsNet for accurate classification. Moreover, a novel cascaded dense inception module is presented to capture more high-level information. Meanwhile, we adopt a hybrid loss by combining a dice loss and a cross-entropy loss to alleviate the imbalance training problem. We evaluate our proposed CUSS-Net on three public medical image datasets. Experiments show that our proposed CUSS-Net outperforms representative state-of-the-art approaches.
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IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
ISSN: 2168-2194
Year: 2023
Issue: 5
Volume: 27
Page: 2444-2455
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JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: COMPUTER SCIENCE;
ESI HC Threshold:32
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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WoS CC Cited Count: 11
SCOPUS Cited Count: 18
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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