Classification and Diagnosis of Thyroid Carcinoma Using Reinforcement Residual Network with Visual Attention Mechanisms in Ultrasound Images

How to differentiate thyroid cancer nodules from a large number of benign nodules is always a challenging subject for clinicians. This paper proposes a novel Sal-deel network model to achieve the classification and diagnosis of thyroid cancer, which can simulate visual attention mechanism. The Sal-deep network introduces saliency map as an additional information on the deep residual network, which selectively enhances the feature extracted from...