QANA让皮肤病变识别在低功耗设备上更准更快。
Quantization-Aware Neuromorphic Architecture for Skin Lesion Classification on Resource-Constrained Devices
- 设计量化感知的CNN结构,确保转SNN时稳定
- 在HAM10000上达91.6%准确率,比基线高3.5点
- 适合临床部署,支持轻量校准无需重新训练
在资源受限设备上进行皮肤病变分析受传统CNN推理计算与能耗限制,且需应对临床数据漂移下的轻量校准需求。类脑处理器提供事件驱动的稀疏计算,但实际部署常因CNN到脉冲神经网络(SNN)转换失败而受限,包括不支持的操作符、量化失真及类别不平衡下的精度下降。本文提出QANA,一个端到端流程中的量化感知CNN骨干网络,通过约束中间激活、对齐归一化与低比特量化、替换易损组件为脉冲兼容变换,提升转换鲁棒性。通过基于Ghost的特征生成、空间感知通道注意力和可量化折叠的squeeze-and-excitation模块实现高效表征。量化投影头输出适合SNN的logits,支持无需全量重训或数据外传的轻量读出校准。在HAM10000数据集上,QANA达到91.6% Top-1准确率与91.0%宏平均F1,较最强转换基线提升3.5个百分点准确率与12.1个百分点宏平均F1;在临床数据集上达90.8%准确率与81.7%宏平均F1,分别提升3.2与3.6个百分点。在BrainChip Akida平台上,每张图像仅需1.5毫秒、1.7毫焦,优于同规模基线4.1点准确率、10.0点宏平均F1、21.1%延迟与22.7%能耗。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
On-device skin lesion analysis is constrained by the compute and energy cost of conventional CNN inference and by the need for lightweight calibration under clinical data shift. Neuromorphic processors provide event-driven sparse computation, but practical deployment is often limited by CNN-to-SNN conversion failures, including unsupported operators, quantization distortion, and accuracy degradation under class imbalance. We propose QANA, a quantization-aware CNN backbone within an end-to-end pipeline for conversion-stable neuromorphic execution. QANA improves conversion robustness by bounding intermediate activations, aligning normalization with low-bit quantization, and replacing conversion-fragile components with spike-compatible transformations. Efficient representation is achieved through Ghost-based feature generation, spatially-aware efficient channel attention, and squeeze-and-excitation modules whose operations can be quantized, folded, or lowered into integer graph operations. The quantized projection head produces SNN-ready logits and supports lightweight readout calibration without full retraining or data offloading. On HAM10000, QANA achieves 91.6% Top-1 accuracy and 91.0% macro F1, improving the strongest converted SNN baseline by 3.5 points in accuracy and 12.1 points in macro F1. On a clinical dataset, QANA achieves 90.8% Top-1 accuracy and 81.7% macro F1, improving the strongest baseline by 3.2 points in accuracy and 3.6 points in macro F1. On BrainChip Akida, QANA runs in 1.5 ms with 1.7 mJ per image, outperforming the strongest size-matched Akida baseline by 4.1 points in accuracy, 10.0 points in macro F1, 21.1% in latency, and 22.7% in energy.
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