Accurate detection of gallbladder cancer (GBC) from ultrasound images is challenging due to subtle early signs and inter-observer variability. Inspired by the success of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms, we propose GallNet - a novel CNN-Transformer hybrid model with a Dual Attention Module for automated GBC detection. The Dual Attention Module consists of Global and Local Attention Branches to localize regions of interest and extract multi-scale spatial features. A pyramid transformer encoder captures global dependencies and contextual information at different resolutions. The attention-enhanced feature maps are fed into the transformer encoder to generate contextualized representations for classification. We train and evaluate GallNet on the GBCU dataset, achieving a level of performance that supports early-stage automated detection of gallbladder cancer. Our results demonstrate the potential of attention-based hybrid architectures for accurate GBC detection, with applicability to other medical image analysis tasks.

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

GallNet: A Hybrid Architecture for Gallbladder Cancer Detection

  • Temesgen Alemayehu Tikure,
  • Weiyanli Chen,
  • Jiang Bian,
  • Zichun Wang,
  • Yeabsira Retta,
  • Kedus Leji Yared,
  • Aychluhum Awole,
  • Sridhar Malkaram,
  • Fred Wu

摘要

Accurate detection of gallbladder cancer (GBC) from ultrasound images is challenging due to subtle early signs and inter-observer variability. Inspired by the success of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms, we propose GallNet - a novel CNN-Transformer hybrid model with a Dual Attention Module for automated GBC detection. The Dual Attention Module consists of Global and Local Attention Branches to localize regions of interest and extract multi-scale spatial features. A pyramid transformer encoder captures global dependencies and contextual information at different resolutions. The attention-enhanced feature maps are fed into the transformer encoder to generate contextualized representations for classification. We train and evaluate GallNet on the GBCU dataset, achieving a level of performance that supports early-stage automated detection of gallbladder cancer. Our results demonstrate the potential of attention-based hybrid architectures for accurate GBC detection, with applicability to other medical image analysis tasks.