2 research outputs found
Optimizing Region Selection for Weakly Supervised Object Detection
Training object detectors with only image-level annotations is very
challenging because the target objects are often surrounded by a large number
of background clutters. Many existing approaches tackle this problem through
object proposal mining. However, the collected positive regions are either low
in precision or lack of diversity, and the strategy of collecting negative
regions is not carefully designed, neither. Moreover, training is often slow
because region selection and object detector training are processed separately.
In this context, the primary contribution of this work is to improve weakly
supervised detection with an optimized region selection strategy. The proposed
method collects purified positive training regions by progressively removing
easy background clutters, and selects discriminative negative regions by mining
class-specific hard samples. This region selection procedure is further
integrated into a CNN-based weakly supervised detection (WSD) framework, and
can be performed in each stochastic gradient descent mini-batch during
training. Therefore, the entire model can be trained end-to-end efficiently.
Extensive evaluation results on PASCAL VOC 2007, VOC 2010 and VOC 2012 datasets
are presented which demonstrate that the proposed method effectively improves
WSD.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure
Weakly and Semi Supervised Detection in Medical Imaging via Deep Dual Branch Net
This study presents a novel deep learning architecture for multi-class
classification and localization of abnormalities in medical imaging illustrated
through experiments on mammograms. The proposed network combines two learning
branches. One branch is for region classification with a newly added
normal-region class. Second branch is region detection branch for ranking
regions relative to one another. Our method enables detection of abnormalities
at full mammogram resolution for both weakly and semi-supervised settings. A
novel objective function allows for the incorporation of local annotations into
the model. We present the impact of our schemes on several performance measures
for classification and localization, to evaluate the cost effectiveness of the
lesion annotation effort. Our evaluation was primarily conducted over a large
multi-center mammography dataset of 3,000 mammograms with various
findings. The results for weakly supervised learning showed significant
improvement compared to previous approaches. We show that the time consuming
local annotations involved in supervised learning can be addressed by a weakly
supervised method that can leverage a subset of locally annotated data. Weakly
and semi-supervised methods coupled with detection can produce a cost effective
and explainable model to be adopted by radiologists in the field