Glioma Grading Unveiled: Optimizing Classification with Multi-Scale Fusion and Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning
摘要
Accurate and early classification of gliomas based on their histopathological grade is critical for determining appropriate treatment strategies and improving patient outcomes. Researchers have examined and studied various deep learning techniques that can help with potential medical assistance. This model leverages multi-scale feature extraction to capture global and localized pathological characteristics, whereas contrastive learning enhances the ability of the model to learn discriminative representations without extensive labeled data. This study proposes a novel deep-learning framework for glioma grade classification using a ResNet-50 backbone combined with multi-scale feature fusion and self-supervised contrastive learning. The proposed method was tested on a large dataset of glioma pictures, yielding an accuracy (97.89%), precision (98.3%), recall (97.8%), specificity (94.9%), F1 score (96%), and Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) (96.2%). Our findings show that merging contrastive learning with a multi-scale feature fusion technique greatly improves the model’s performance in classifying glioma grades. The high precision and recall rates indicated the strong potential of this approach for application in real-world diagnostic workflows.