Application of Lightweight DSC-NET Network Model in Histopathological Images of Lung Cancer and Colon Cancer

Classification of histopathological images is a fundamental task in the workflow of pathological diagnosis. Due to the complexity of pathological images, it is particularly important to use deep learning to improve diagnostic efficiency. This paper designs a lightweight network model DSC-NET, which consists of multi-scale feature stitching Multi-Conv, coordinate attention CA. The improved selfcalibrated convolution MSC-Conv is composed of selfcalibrated convolution SC-Conv, coordinate attention CA and depthwise DW. In addition, the DSC-NET network model converts the 1×1 convolutional layer (Conv) in the Block module into a linear layer (Linear), which reduces the computational complexity of the model while maintaining the ability of the convolution operation to capture local features. The research in this paper adopts the lung cancer and colon cancer datasets and adds Gaussian noise to these datasets to simulate the equipment shooting situation and evaluate the lightweight DSC-NET network model. Through quantitative comparisons with previous state-of-the-art methods, our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior accuracy. Furthermore, our method stands out with a smaller parameter count and significantly lower FLOPs, highlighting its efficiency and computational advantages. It has important potential to assist pathologists in pathological diagnosis.