Single-sequence MRI Glioma Grading Based on Semi-supervised Learning and Decision Vector Alignment
A method based on semi-supervised learning and decision vector alignment was proposed for glioma grading in single-sequence magnetic resonance imaging(MRI).In this method,the cosine similarity loss function was used to guide the proposed convolutional neural network model to complete the missing sequence features through the single-sequence MRI data,and the classification decision vector aligned with the multi-sequence MRI was obtained.Considering the scarcity of high-quality graded labeled data,a semi-supervised learning strategy was introduced to make full use of labelled and unlabelled MRI data.This strategy could simultaneously train and optimize the alignment of decision vectors and the single-sequence MRI glioma grading model,to improve the grading effect of the model.The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by using five-fold cross validation.The experimental results on the BraTS dataset showed that the proposed method achieved 91.64%accuracy in the glioma grading task based on T1ce sequence,which was superior to the existing methods.