arXiv:2607.10278cs.CV2026-07

用几何先验增强注意力,提升宫颈细胞图像分类精度。

Geometry-aware Gaussian Prior and Axial Attention for Cervical Cytology Image Classification

论文配图:Geometry-aware Gaussian Prior and Axial Attention for Cervical Cytology Image Classification
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  • 引入高斯专家模块生成轴向结构先验,捕捉细胞空间规律。
  • 在Mendeley和SIPaKMeD数据集上分别达到99.48%和96.08%准确率。
  • 适合医疗影像分析、宫颈癌筛查辅助系统研发者使用。

准确的宫颈细胞学图像分类是自动化宫颈癌筛查的关键,可靠识别正常、癌前及癌症相关细胞模式可提升筛查效率与诊断一致性。然而,由于宫颈细胞形态复杂、类内差异细微且类间相似性强,该任务仍具挑战。现有卷积模型擅长局部纹理建模但难以捕捉长程依赖,而注意力模型虽具全局上下文感知能力,却缺乏显式结构引导。为此,我们提出一种面向宫颈癌筛查的几何感知分类框架,融合预训练视觉-语言模型学习的语义抽象与结构先验。通过高斯专家模块从全局语义信息生成轴向先验,捕捉核排列与细胞空间组织等结构规律,并嵌入轴向自注意力模块,沿水平与垂直方向调制相似性计算,强化长程依赖建模与结构敏感特征交互。在Mendeley液基细胞学与SIPaKMeD数据集上的实验表明,该方法分别取得99.48%与96.08%的准确率,召回率、精确率与整体性能均显著提升。可视化分析显示,学习到的先验聚焦于具有诊断意义的细胞区域,验证了该框架作为筛查导向决策支持工具的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate cervical cytology image classification is a key component of automated cervical cancer screening, where reliable recognition of normal, precancerous, and cancer-associated cellular patterns from Pap smear images can improve screening efficiency and diagnostic consistency. However, this task remains challenging because cervical cells exhibit complex morphology, subtle intra-class variations, and strong inter-class similarities. Existing convolution-based models capture local texture well but have limited ability to model long-range relationships, whereas attention-based models provide broader context but often lack explicit structural guidance. To address these limitations, we propose a geometry-aware classification framework for cervical cancer screening-oriented cytology image analysis, incorporating semantic abstraction and structural priors learned from pre-trained vision-language features. The method uses Gaussian expert modules to generate axis-wise priors from global semantic information, capturing structural regularities such as nuclear alignment and cellular spatial organization. These priors are embedded into an axial self-attention module to modulate similarity computation along horizontal and vertical directions, improving long-range dependency modeling and structure-sensitive feature interaction. Experiments on the Mendeley liquid-based cytology and SIPaKMeD datasets show that the proposed method achieves 99.48% accuracy on the former and 96.08% on the latter, with balanced gains in recall, precision, and overall classification performance. Visual analysis further shows that the learned priors highlight diagnostically relevant cellular regions, demonstrating the potential of the proposed framework as a screening-oriented decision-support tool for cervical cytology.

宫颈癌筛查图像分类注意力机制结构先验

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