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A Semisupervised Learning Scheme with Self-Paced Learning for Classifying Breast Cancer Histopathological Images.
- Source :
- Computational Intelligence & Neuroscience; 12/8/2020, p1-16, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The unavailability of large amounts of well-labeled data poses a significant challenge in many medical imaging tasks. Even in the likelihood of having access to sufficient data, the process of accurately labeling the data is an arduous and time-consuming one, requiring expertise skills. Again, the issue of unbalanced data further compounds the abovementioned problems and presents a considerable challenge for many machine learning algorithms. In lieu of this, the ability to develop algorithms that can exploit large amounts of unlabeled data together with a small amount of labeled data, while demonstrating robustness to data imbalance, can offer promising prospects in building highly efficient classifiers. This work proposes a semisupervised learning method that integrates self-training and self-paced learning to generate and select pseudolabeled samples for classifying breast cancer histopathological images. A novel pseudolabel generation and selection algorithm is introduced in the learning scheme to generate and select highly confident pseudolabeled samples from both well-represented classes to less-represented classes. Such a learning approach improves the performance by jointly learning a model and optimizing the generation of pseudolabels on unlabeled-target data to augment the training data and retraining the model with the generated labels. A class balancing framework that normalizes the class-wise confidence scores is also proposed to prevent the model from ignoring samples from less represented classes (hard-to-learn samples), hence effectively handling the issue of data imbalance. Extensive experimental evaluation of the proposed method on the BreakHis dataset demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BREAST cancer
MACHINE learning
SUPERVISED learning
ALGORITHMS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16875265
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Computational Intelligence & Neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147476638
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8826568