A Preliminary Study on Deep Transfer Learning Applied to Image Classification for Small Datasets

  1. Miguel Ángel Molina 1
  2. Gualberto Asencio-Cortés 1
  3. Riquelme, José C. 2
  4. Francisco Martínez- Álvarez 1
  1. 1 Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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    Universidad Pablo de Olavide

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z749649

  2. 2 Universidad de Sevilla
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    Universidad de Sevilla

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03yxnpp24

Book:
15th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 2020): Burgos, Spain ; September 2020
  1. Álvaro Herrero (coord.)
  2. Carlos Cambra (coord.)
  3. Daniel Urda (coord.)
  4. Javier Sedano (coord.)
  5. Héctor Quintián (coord.)
  6. Emilio Corchado (coord.)

Publisher: Springer Suiza

ISBN: 978-3-030-57801-5 978-3-030-57802-2

Year of publication: 2021

Pages: 741-750

Congress: International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications SOCO (15. 2020. Burgos)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

A new transfer learning strategy is proposed for image classification in this work, based on an 8-layer convolutional neural network. The transfer learning process consists in a training phase of the neural network on a source dataset of images. Then, the last two layers are retrained using a different small target dataset of images. A preliminary study was conducted to train and test the transfer learning proposal on Malaria cell images for a binary classification problem. The methodology proposed has provided a 6.76% of improvement with respect to other three different strategies of training non-transfer learning models. The results achieved are quite promising and encourage to conduct further research in this field.