Deep Learning and Handcrafted Features for Virus Image Classification

Abstract

In this work, we present an ensemble of descriptors for the classification of virus images acquired using transmission electron microscopy. We trained multiple support vector machines on different sets of features extracted from the data. We used both handcrafted algorithms and a pretrained deep neural network as feature extractors. The proposed fusion strongly boosts the performance obtained by each stand-alone approach, obtaining state of the art performance.

Keywords

• virus classification
• texture descriptors
• deep learning
• local binary patterns
• ensemble of descriptors