Fractal Neural Network: A new ensemble of fractal geometry and convolutional neural networks for the classification of histology images

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Highlights：

• A CNN ensemble that requires few training epochs for classifying histology images.

• Fractal dimension, lacunarity and percolation features are extracted from the images.

• Fractal features are reshaped as a synthetic image and then given as input to a CNN.

• Accuracies up to 99.62% were obtained from classifying 5 histology image datasets.

摘要

•A CNN ensemble that requires few training epochs for classifying histology images.•Fractal dimension, lacunarity and percolation features are extracted from the images.•Fractal features are reshaped as a synthetic image and then given as input to a CNN.•Accuracies up to 99.62% were obtained from classifying 5 histology image datasets.

论文关键词：Deep learning,Fractal features,Classification ensemble,Histology images

论文评审过程：Received 1 July 2020, Revised 2 October 2020, Accepted 4 October 2020, Available online 6 October 2020, Version of Record 12 October 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114103