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Inspection and evaluation of defects is an important means of ensuring the safe operation of pipelines. In-line inspection of Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) can be used to identify and analyze potential defects. For pipeline MFL identification with inspecting in long distance, there exists the issues of low identification efficiency, misjudgment and leakage judgment. To solve these problems, a pipeline MFL inspection signal identification method based on improved deep residual convolutional neural network and attention module is proposed. A improved deep residual network based on the VGG16 convolution neural network is constructed to automatically learn the features from the MFL image signals and perform the identification of pipeline features and defects. The attention modules are introduced to reduce the influence of noises and compound features on the identification results in the process of in-line inspection. The actual pipeline in-line inspection experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately classify the MFL in-line inspection image signals and effectively reduce the influence of noises on the feature identification results with an average classification accuracy of 97.7%. This method can effectively improve identification accuracy and efficiency of the pipeline MFL in-line inspection.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22062230","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,15]],"date-time":"2022-03-15T02:56:20Z","timestamp":1647312980000},"page":"2230","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Attention Module Magnetic Flux Leakage Linked Deep Residual Network for Pipeline In-Line Inspection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Shucong","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"},{"name":"College of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China"}]},{"given":"Hongjun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5084-0276","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PipeChina Northern Company, Langfang 065000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"104446","DOI":"10.1016\/j.engfailanal.2020.104446","article-title":"Most fatal oil & gas pipeline accidents through history: A lessons learned approach","volume":"110","author":"Biezma","year":"2020","journal-title":"Eng. 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