UKSSL: Underlying Knowledge Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Classification

<italic>Goal:</italic> Deep learning techniques have made significant progress in medical image analysis. However, obtaining ground truth labels for unlabeled medical images is challenging as they often outnumber labeled images. Thus, training a high-performance model with limited labele...

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Main Authors: Zeyu Ren, Xiangyu Kong, Yudong Zhang, Shuihua Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
Series:IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10218990/
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Summary:<italic>Goal:</italic> Deep learning techniques have made significant progress in medical image analysis. However, obtaining ground truth labels for unlabeled medical images is challenging as they often outnumber labeled images. Thus, training a high-performance model with limited labeled data has become a crucial challenge. <italic>Methods:</italic> This study introduces an underlying knowledge-based semi-supervised framework called UKSSL, consisting of two components: MedCLR extracts feature representations from the unlabeled dataset; UKMLP utilizes the representation and fine-tunes it with the limited labeled dataset to classify the medical images. <italic>Results:</italic> UKSSL evaluates on the LC25000 and BCCD datasets, using only 50&#x0025; labeled data. It gets precision, recall, F1-score, and accuracy of 98.9&#x0025; on LC25000 and 94.3&#x0025;, 94.5&#x0025;, 94.3&#x0025;, and 94.1&#x0025; on BCCD, respectively. These results outperform other supervised-learning methods using 100&#x0025; labeled data. <italic>Conclusions:</italic> The UKSSL can efficiently extract underlying knowledge from the unlabeled dataset and perform better using limited labeled medical images.
ISSN:2644-1276