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Current Medical Imaging

Author(s): Jun Liu, Xiaoxue Sun, Rihui Li and Yuanxiu Peng*

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Recognition of Cervical Precancerous Lesions Based on Probability Distribution Feature Guidance

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Abstract

Introduction: Cervical cancer is a high incidence of cancer in women and cervical precancerous screening plays an important role in reducing the mortality rate.

Methods: In this study, we proposed a multichannel feature extraction method based on the probability distribution features of the Acetowhite (AW) region to identify cervical precancerous lesions, with the overarching goal to improve the accuracy of cervical precancerous screening. A k-means clustering algorithm was first used to extract the cervical region images from the original colposcopy images. We then used a deep learning model called DeepLab V3+ to segment the AW region of the cervical image after the acetic acid experiment, from which the probability distribution map of the AW region after segmentation was obtained. This probability distribution map was fed into a neural network classification model for multichannel feature extraction, which resulted in the final classification performance.

Results: Results of the experimental evaluation showed that the proposed method achieved an average accuracy of 87.7%, an average sensitivity of 89.3%, and an average specificity of 85.6%. Compared with the methods that did not add segmented probability features, the proposed method increased the average accuracy rate, sensitivity, and specificity by 8.3%, 8%, and 8.4%, respectively.

Conclusion: Overall, the proposed method holds great promise for enhancing the screening of cervical precancerous lesions in the clinic by providing the physician with more reliable screening results that might reduce their workload.

Keywords: Acetic acid test, colposcopy image, cervical screening, deep learning, automatic diagnosis, cervical cancer.

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