An Image Recognition Method for Urine Sediment Based on Semi-supervised Learning

Abstract

Objectives

Because there are many categories, large morphological differences and few labels of urinary sediment components, and uneven data in urine sediment images recognition, the accuracy and recall rate of the existing urine sediment images recognition methods are not ideal. The main purpose of this paper is to improve the accuracy and recall of urine sediment image recognition by proposing a urine sediment image classification method based on semi-supervised learning.

Methods

This paper proposes a method based on semi-supervised learning to classify urine sediment images. This algorithm designs a re-parameterization network (US-RepNet) for low-resolution urine sediment microscopic images to extract complex features of urine sediment images. The dual attention module is introduced on Us-RepNet to increase the extraction of fine-grained features from urine sediment images. And the cross-entropy loss (C.E. loss) function is optimized to train an unbiased classifier to improve long-tailed distribution image classification.

Results

The experimental results show that the accuracy of proposed method can reach 94% with only a small amount of labeled data for 16 types of urine sediment images under long-tail distribution.

Conclusion

The algorithm can recognize most types, and reduces the need for labeled information, while achieving excellent recognition and classification performance. Comprehensive analysis shows that it can be used as a practical reference for urine sediment analysis.