The pathological diagnosis of gastric cancer relies on the precise differentiation of its fine-grained subtypes, a process often challenged by the lack of annotated data. This study proposes a novel dual-attention meta-learning framework, aiming to address the problem of fine-grained image classification under fee-shot conditions in the medical field, and is particularly suitable for histopathological images of gastric cancer. This study proposes a meta-learning method combined with a dual-attention mechanism to enhance the recognition of imperceptible inter-class differences in pathological images. The channel attention module automatically selects key features by analyzing the information density of the feature map, while the spatial attention module precisely locates the morphological structure in the image. Supported by the meta-learning framework, this model can quickly adapt to new disease classification tasks with a limited number of samples. Experimental results on a self-constructed pathological dataset containing multiple fine-grained subtypes of gastric cancer show that the proposed mean is significantly superior to several benchmark models, demonstrating obvious performance advantages. This work provides a new technical approach for developing computer-aided diagnostic systems in the absence of annotated data.
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