EHDFL: Evolutionary hybrid domain feature learning based on windowed fast Fourier convolution pyramid for medical image classification

Abstract

With the development of modern medical technology, medical image classification has played an important role in medical diagnosis and clinical practice. Medical image classification algorithms based on deep learning emerge in endlessly, and have achieved amazing results. However, most of these methods ignore the feature representation based on frequency domain, and only focus on spatial features. To solve this problem, we propose a hybrid domain feature learning (HDFL) module based on windowed fast Fourier convolution pyramid, which combines the global features with a wide range of receptive fields in frequency domain and the local features with multiple scales in spatial domain. In order to prevent frequency leakage, we construct a Windowed Fast Fourier Convolution (WFFC) structure based on Fast Fourier Convolution (FFC). In order to learn hybrid domain features, we combine ResNet, FPN, and attention mechanism to construct a hybrid domain feature learning module. In addition, a super-parametric optimization algorithm is constructed based on genetic algorithm for our classification model, so as to realize the automation of our super-parametric optimization. We evaluated the newly published medical image classification dataset MedMNIST, and the experimental results show that our method can effectively learning the hybrid domain feature information of frequency domain and spatial domain.

Keywords: Fast Fourier convolution; Feature extraction; Frequency domain learning; Genetic algorithm; Medical image.