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Deep neural networks combine Fisher Vectors with CNNs and ViTs for medical image classification

Researchers have developed a novel approach to enhance deep neural networks for medical image classification by integrating Fisher Vectors with hybrid CNN-ViT architectures. This method aims to improve performance on datasets of varying sizes, addressing limitations of traditional CNNs and ViTs. The proposed technique was tested on several medical imaging datasets, including MedMNIST (v2), Clean-CC-CCII, and ISIC2018, achieving superior results on MedMNIST and competitive performance on the other two. AI

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Deep neural networks combine Fisher Vectors with CNNs and ViTs for medical image classification

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Lucas O. Lyra, Antonio E. Fabris, Joao B. Florindo ·

    Deep neural networks with Fisher vector encoding for medical image classification

    arXiv:2605.01667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Orderless encoding methods have shown to improve Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification in the context of limited availability of data. Additionally, hybrid CNN + Vision Transformers (ViT) models have been rec…