Affine-Consistent Transformer for Multi-Class Cell Nuclei Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14154v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 02:27:02 GMT
• Title: Affine-Consistent Transformer for Multi-Class Cell Nuclei Detection
• Authors: Junjia Huang and Haofeng Li and Xiang Wan and Guanbin Li
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Affine-Consistent Transformer (AC-Former), which directly yields a sequence of nucleus positions. We introduce an Adaptive Affine Transformer (AAT) module, which can automatically learn the key spatial transformations to warp original images for local network training. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art algorithms on various benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Multi-class cell nuclei detection is a fundamental prerequisite in the diagnosis of histopathology. It is critical to efficiently locate and identify cells with diverse morphology and distributions in digital pathological images. Most existing methods take complex intermediate representations as learning targets and rely on inflexible post-refinements while paying less attention to various cell density and fields of view. In this paper, we propose a novel Affine-Consistent Transformer (AC-Former), which directly yields a sequence of nucleus positions and is trained collaboratively through two sub-networks, a global and a local network. The local branch learns to infer distorted input images of smaller scales while the global network outputs the large-scale predictions as extra supervision signals. We further introduce an Adaptive Affine Transformer (AAT) module, which can automatically learn the key spatial transformations to warp original images for local network training. The AAT module works by learning to capture the transformed image regions that are more valuable for training the model. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art algorithms on various benchmarks.

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