Accurate and efficient lumbar spine disease identification is crucial for clinical diagnosis. However, existing deep learning models with millions of parameters often fail to learn with only hundreds or dozens of medical images. These models also ignore the contextual relationship between adjacent objects, such as between vertebras and intervertebral discs. This work introduces a multi-scale context-guided network with coarse-to-fine localization and classification, named CCF-Net, for lumbar spine disease identification. Specifically, in learning, we divide the localization objective into two parallel tasks, coarse and fine, which are more straightforward and effectively reduce the number of parameters and computational cost. The experimental results show that the coarse-to-fine design presents the potential to achieve high performance with fewer parameters and data requirements. Moreover, the multi-scale context-guided module can significantly improve the performance by 6.45% and 5.51% with ResNet18 and ResNet50, respectively. Our code is available at https://github.com/czifan/CCFNet.pytorch.

本文介绍了一种名为CCF-Net的多尺度上下文引导网络，具有从粗到细的定位和分类方式，用于腰椎疾病识别。研究表明，这种粗到细的设计具有更少的参数和数据需求，并且使用ResNet18和ResNet50进行实验可以显著提高性能。

粗-细定位和分类的多尺度上下文引导的腰椎疾病识别