Enabling Efficient Training of Convolutional Neural Networks for Histopathology Images

Mohammed H. Alali, Arman Roohi, Jitender S. Deogun

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Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained lots of attention in various digital imaging applications. They have proven to produce incredible results, especially on big data, that require high processing demands. With the increasing size of datasets, especially in computational pathology, CNN processing takes even longer and uses higher computational resources. Considerable research has been conducted to improve the efficiency of CNN, such as quantization. This paper aims to apply efficient training and inference of ResNet using quantization on histopathology images, the Patch Camelyon (PCam) dataset. An analysis for efficient approaches to classify histopathology images is presented. First, the original RGB-colored images are evaluated. Then, compression methods such as channel reduction and sparsity are applied. When comparing sparsity on grayscale with RGB modes, classification accuracy is relatively the same, but the total number of MACs is less in sparsity on grayscale by 77% than RGB. A higher classification result was achieved by grayscale mode, which requires much fewer MACs than the original RGB mode. Our method’s low energy and processing make this project suitable for inference on wearable healthcare low powered devices and mobile hospitals in rural areas or developing countries. This also assists pathologists by presenting a preliminary diagnosis.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 2022 Workshops - ICIAP International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsPier Luigi Mazzeo, Cosimo Distante, Emanuele Frontoni, Stan Sclaroff
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages533-544
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031133206
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing , ICIAP 2022 - Lecce, Italy
Duration: May 23 2022May 27 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13373 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing , ICIAP 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityLecce
Period5/23/225/27/22

Keywords

  • Computational Pathology
  • Deep learning
  • Quantization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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