Chromosome recognition is an essential task in karyotyping, which plays a
vital role in birth defect diagnosis and biomedical research. However, existing
classification methods face significant challenges due to the inter-class
similarity and intra-class variation of chromosomes. To address this issue, we
propose a supervised contrastive learning strategy that is tailored to train
model-agnostic deep networks for reliable chromosome classification. This
method enables extracting fine-grained chromosomal embeddings in latent space.
These embeddings effectively expand inter-class boundaries and reduce
intra-class variations, enhancing their distinctiveness in predicting
chromosome types. On top of two large-scale chromosome datasets, we
comprehensively validate the power of our contrastive learning strategy in
boosting cutting-edge deep networks such as Transformers and ResNets. Extensive
results demonstrate that it can significantly improve models' generalization
performance, with an accuracy improvement up to +4.5%. Codes and pretrained
models will be released upon acceptance of this work.

提出了一种针对可靠染色体分类训练的监督对比学习策略，通过在潜在空间中提取细粒度的染色体嵌入，扩大了类间边界和减少了类内差异，提高了预测染色体类型的准确性，可以显著提升深度网络的泛化性能。