期刊
SENSORS
卷 20, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s20092644
关键词
light-weight framework; feces trait recognition; object detection; visual sensor; illumination normalization method; convolutional neural network
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61866028]
- Foundation of China Scholarship Council [CSC201908360075]
- Key Program Project of Research and Development (Jiangxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology) [20171ACE50024]
- Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition [ET201680245, TX201604002]
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [2015R1D1A1A01059253]
- NRF [2016K2A9A2A05005255]
Fecal trait examinations are critical in the clinical diagnosis of digestive diseases, and they can effectively reveal various aspects regarding the health of the digestive system. An automatic feces detection and trait recognition system based on a visual sensor could greatly alleviate the burden on medical inspectors and overcome many sanitation problems, such as infections. Unfortunately, the lack of digital medical images acquired with camera sensors due to patient privacy has obstructed the development of fecal examinations. In general, the computing power of an automatic fecal diagnosis machine or a mobile computer-aided diagnosis device is not always enough to run a deep network. Thus, a light-weight practical framework is proposed, which consists of three stages: illumination normalization, feces detection, and trait recognition. Illumination normalization effectively suppresses the illumination variances that degrade the recognition accuracy. Neither the shape nor the location is fixed, so shape-based and location-based object detection methods do not work well in this task. Meanwhile, this leads to a difficulty in labeling the images for training convolutional neural networks (CNN) in detection. Our segmentation scheme is free from training and labeling. The feces object is accurately detected with a well-designed threshold-based segmentation scheme on the selected color component to reduce the background disturbance. Finally, the preprocessed images are categorized into five classes with a light-weight shallow CNN, which is suitable for feces trait examinations in real hospital environments. The experiment results from our collected dataset demonstrate that our framework yields a satisfactory accuracy of 98.4%, while requiring low computational complexity and storage.
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