Dual Attention-Guided Deep Learning for Multi-class Gastrointestinal Disease Detection
摘要
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are a major global health concern, and early detection significantly improves patient outcomes. Current endoscopic methods, however, are hampered by inter-observer variability and high miss rates. Real-time artificial intelligence (AI) offers a promising solution but faces challenges in effective feature extraction and refinement for accurate GI abnormality detection. We propose a novel attention mechanism, V-CBAM, which combines volumetric attention with Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) to enhance feature maps derived from GI images. V-CBAM preserves critical structural information while adaptively refining features through spatial and channel-wise attention maps. Integrated into various transfer learning architectures and evaluated on the largest available GI abnormality dataset, V-CBAM achieves an average improvement of over 7% in precision, recall, and F1 score, demonstrating a statistically significant enhancement in detection performance with the potential to transform clinical practice.