鉴于Single Shot Multibox Detector(SSD)算法对中小目标检测时会出现漏检甚至错检的情况,提出一种改进的SSD目标检测算法,以提高中小目标检测的准确性.运用Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping(Grad-CAM)技术对检测过程中的细...鉴于Single Shot Multibox Detector(SSD)算法对中小目标检测时会出现漏检甚至错检的情况,提出一种改进的SSD目标检测算法,以提高中小目标检测的准确性.运用Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping(Grad-CAM)技术对检测过程中的细节作可视化处理,并以类激活图的形式呈现各检测层细节,分析各检测层的类激活图发现SSD算法中待检测目标的错检以及中小目标的漏检现象与回归损失函数相关.据此,采用Kullback-Leibler(KL)边框回归损失策略,利用Non Maximum Suppression(NMS)算法输出最终预测框.实验结果表明,改进算法相较于已有检测算法具有更高的准确率以及稳定性.展开更多
COVID-19 is a growing problem worldwide with a high mortality rate.As a result,the World Health Organization(WHO)declared it a pandemic.In order to limit the spread of the disease,a fast and accurate diagnosis is requ...COVID-19 is a growing problem worldwide with a high mortality rate.As a result,the World Health Organization(WHO)declared it a pandemic.In order to limit the spread of the disease,a fast and accurate diagnosis is required.A reverse transcript polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR)test is often used to detect the disease.However,since this test is time-consuming,a chest computed tomography(CT)or plain chest X-ray(CXR)is sometimes indicated.The value of automated diagnosis is that it saves time and money by minimizing human effort.Three significant contributions are made by our research.Its initial purpose is to use the essential finetuning methodology to test the action and efficiency of a variety of vision models,ranging from Inception to Neural Architecture Search(NAS)networks.Second,by plotting class activationmaps(CAMs)for individual networks and assessing classification efficiency with AUC-ROC curves,the behavior of these models is visually analyzed.Finally,stacked ensembles techniques were used to provide greater generalization by combining finetuned models with six ensemble neural networks.Using stacked ensembles,the generalization of the models improved.Furthermore,the ensemble model created by combining all of the finetuned networks obtained a state-of-the-art COVID-19 accuracy detection score of 99.17%.The precision and recall rates were 99.99%and 89.79%,respectively,highlighting the robustness of stacked ensembles.The proposed ensemble approach performed well in the classification of the COVID-19 lesions on CXR according to the experimental results.展开更多
文摘鉴于Single Shot Multibox Detector(SSD)算法对中小目标检测时会出现漏检甚至错检的情况,提出一种改进的SSD目标检测算法,以提高中小目标检测的准确性.运用Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping(Grad-CAM)技术对检测过程中的细节作可视化处理,并以类激活图的形式呈现各检测层细节,分析各检测层的类激活图发现SSD算法中待检测目标的错检以及中小目标的漏检现象与回归损失函数相关.据此,采用Kullback-Leibler(KL)边框回归损失策略,利用Non Maximum Suppression(NMS)算法输出最终预测框.实验结果表明,改进算法相较于已有检测算法具有更高的准确率以及稳定性.
基金The research is funded by the Researchers Supporting Project at King Saud University,(Project#RSP-2021/305).
文摘COVID-19 is a growing problem worldwide with a high mortality rate.As a result,the World Health Organization(WHO)declared it a pandemic.In order to limit the spread of the disease,a fast and accurate diagnosis is required.A reverse transcript polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR)test is often used to detect the disease.However,since this test is time-consuming,a chest computed tomography(CT)or plain chest X-ray(CXR)is sometimes indicated.The value of automated diagnosis is that it saves time and money by minimizing human effort.Three significant contributions are made by our research.Its initial purpose is to use the essential finetuning methodology to test the action and efficiency of a variety of vision models,ranging from Inception to Neural Architecture Search(NAS)networks.Second,by plotting class activationmaps(CAMs)for individual networks and assessing classification efficiency with AUC-ROC curves,the behavior of these models is visually analyzed.Finally,stacked ensembles techniques were used to provide greater generalization by combining finetuned models with six ensemble neural networks.Using stacked ensembles,the generalization of the models improved.Furthermore,the ensemble model created by combining all of the finetuned networks obtained a state-of-the-art COVID-19 accuracy detection score of 99.17%.The precision and recall rates were 99.99%and 89.79%,respectively,highlighting the robustness of stacked ensembles.The proposed ensemble approach performed well in the classification of the COVID-19 lesions on CXR according to the experimental results.
