# Segmentation of the veterinary cytological images for fast neoplastic tumors diagnosis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04332 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.04332/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 7 May 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

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- [Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.14030/) (2021)
- [MMDetection: Open MMLab Detection Toolbox and Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.07155/) (2019)
- [ResNeSt: Split-Attention Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.08955/) (2020)
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- [CBNet: A Composite Backbone Network Architecture for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.00420/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Using super-resolution for enhancing visual perception and segmentation performance in veterinary cytology](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.11848/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper shows the machine learning system which performs instance segmentation of cytological images in veterinary medicine. Eleven cell types were used directly and indirectly in the experiments, including damaged and unrecognized categories. The deep learning models employed in the system achieve a high score of average precision and recall metrics, i.e. 0.94 and 0.8 respectively, for the selected three types of tumors. This variety of label types allowed us to draw a meaningful conclusion that there are relatively few mistakes for tumor cell types. Additionally, the model learned tumor cell features well enough to avoid misclassification mistakes of one tumor type into another. The experiments also revealed that the quality of the results improves with the dataset size (excluding the damaged cells). It is worth noting that all the experiments were done using a custom dedicated dataset provided by the cooperating vet doctors.