MobileConvNeXt: An Application for Aortic Dissection Detection Using Computed Tomography Images


DERYA S., Akbal E., GÜRBÜZ Ş., Karabulut F. A., San I., YILDIRIM İ. O., ...Daha Fazla

Signal, Image and Video Processing, cilt.20, sa.7, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2026
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s11760-026-05431-1
  • Dergi Adı: Signal, Image and Video Processing
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Compendex, INSPEC, zbMATH, Technology Collection (ProQuest)
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Aortic dissection detection, Computer vision, Deep feature engineering, MobileConvNeXt, Multiple feature selectors and intersection
  • İnönü Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study introduces MobileConvNeXt, a compact mobile CNN for biomedical image classification, and validates it on a newly created CT aortic dissection dataset. The network is a mobile-tailored ConvNeXt variant that combines Batch Normalization (stable optimisation), Swish (smooth gradient flow), and Squeeze-and-Excitation (channel attention) to improve robustness under low compute. To further boost performance, we design a deep feature engineering (DFE) layer on top of the same backbone: two feature sets are extracted via GAP + dropout, reduced using four feature selectors plus their intersections, classified with SVM and kNN, and fused using Iterative Majority Voting with greedy search. Across 78 total outcomes, the best configuration is selected as the recommended model, where MobileConvNeXt and its DFE variant achieve 92.44% and 97.54% test accuracy, respectively, with only ∼4.3 M parameters, demonstrating high accuracy at low computational cost.