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Cancer is one of the fatal threats to human beings. However, early detection and diagnosis can significantly reduce death risk, in which cytology classification is indispensable. Researchers have proposed many deep learning-based methods for automated cancer diagnosis. Nevertheless, due to the similarity of pathological features in cytology images and the scarcity of high-quality datasets, neither the limited accuracy of single networks nor the complex architectures of ensemble methods can meet practical application needs. To address the issue, we propose a purified Stacking ensemble framework, which employs three homogeneous convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as base learners and integrates their outputs to generate a new dataset by a k-fold split and concatenation strategy. Then a distance weighted voting technique is applied to purify the dataset, on which a multinomial logistic regression model with a designed loss function is trained as the meta-learner and performs the final predictions. The method is evaluated on the FNAC, Ascites, and SIPaKMeD datasets, achieving accuracies of 99.85%, 99.24%, and 99.75%, respectively. The experimental results outperform the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, demonstrating its potential for reducing screening workload and helping pathologists detect cancer.
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This paper was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Yunnan Province under grant no. 202203AA080009, the 14th Five-Year Plan for Educational Science of Jiangsu Province under grant no. D/2021/01/39, and the Jiangsu Higher Education Reform Research Project “Research on the Evaluation of Practical Teaching Reform in Information Majors based on Student Practical Ability Model” under grant no. 2021JSJG143.
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Qian, L., Huang, Q., Chen, Y., Chen, J. (2024). A Purified Stacking Ensemble Framework for Cytology Classification. In: Rudinac, S., et al. MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14555. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53308-2_20
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