Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration
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Machine learning, particularly deep learning has boosted medical image analysis over the past years. Training a good model based on deep learning requires large amount of labelled data. However, it is often difficult to obtain a sufficient number of labelled images for training. In many scenarios the dataset in question consists of more unlabelled images than labelled ones. Therefore, boosting the performance of machine learning models by using unlabelled as well as labelled data is an important but challenging problem. Self-supervised learning presents one possible solution to this problem. However, existing self-supervised learning strategies applicable to medical images cannot result in significant performance improvement. Therefore, they often lead to only marginal improvements. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised learning strategy based on context restoration in order to better exploit unlabelled images. The context restoration strategy has three major features: 1) it learns semantic image features; 2) these image features are useful for different types of subsequent image analysis tasks; and 3) its implementation is simple. We validate the context restoration strategy in three common problems in medical imaging: classification, localization, and segmentation. For classification, we apply and test it to scan plane detection in fetal 2D ultrasound images; to localise abdominal organs in CT images; and to segment brain tumours in multi-modal MR images. In all three cases, self-supervised learning based on context restoration learns useful semantic features and lead to improved machine learning models for the above tasks.
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The paper proposes context restoration as a self-supervised pretraining task for medical images: randomly swap image patches and train a CNN to restore the original context. Across fetal ultrasound classification, abdominal CT organ localization, and brain MR tumor segmentation, context restoration pretraining outperformed autoencoder, relative-position, context-prediction, and no self-supervision.
Key findings
- Context restoration pretraining improved CNNs in all three evaluated tasks: fetal standard scan plane classification, abdominal multi-organ localization, and brain tumor segmentation. It outperformed other self-supervised strategies and no self-supervision in the reported comparisons.
- For fetal ultrasound classification, when using only a quarter of the training data, context restoration pretraining improved the SonoNet performance the most among the compared pretraining strategies.
- For abdominal CT localization, context restoration pretraining produced more localization improvements than other pretraining methods; in some cases it was comparable to or better than no pretraining on more annotated training data.
- For BraTS 2017 brain tumor segmentation, U-Nets initialized by context restoration pretraining achieved the best performance in total; using 50% of the training set gave similar performance to using the whole training set, with Dice in enhanced tumor core, sensitivity in non-enhanced and enhanced tumor cores, and Hausdorff distances even slightly better.
Methods
- Self-supervised task: given an unlabelled image, randomly select two isolated patches and swap them; repeat T times to disorder context, then train a CNN to restore the original image using an L2 loss.
- Evaluated on three datasets/tasks: fetal 2D ultrasound classification with 2694 examinations and SonoNet-64; abdominal CT multi-organ localization with 150 subjects and a SonoNet-like CNN; BraTS 2017 brain tumor segmentation with 285 subjects, 142 for training/validation and 143 for testing, using a 2D U-Net on 64×64 patches.
- Compared pretraining strategies: autoencoder, relative position prediction, local context prediction, and context restoration; subsequent tasks used whole, half, or quarter of the training set. Training details include 58K iterations for ultrasound classification, 55K for CT localization, and 50K for segmentation.
Limitations
- The paper states that the L2 loss used for context restoration results in blurry restored images.
- The paper reports that data augmentation did not consistently improve performance and sometimes decreased segmentation accuracy; it also notes that self-supervised pretraining was not compared against supervised pretraining because supervised pretraining is difficult in medical imaging due to annotation requirements.
- Evident from the text: evaluation is limited to three medical imaging tasks and datasets, and the paper notes that in brain tumor segmentation the performance differences among self-supervision strategies were not always significant.
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Balancing the numbers of instances in each class significantly improves performance in all three metrics (precision, recall, and F1-score) for fetal scan plane classification.
“Balancing the numbers of instances in each class significantly improves the performance in all three metrics.”
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Initialising by pretrained features, particularly those from context restoration tasks, improves the CNN performance.
“Initialising by pretrained features, particularly those from context restoration tasks, improves the CNN performance.”
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The L2 loss results in image blur in context restoration.
“A shortcoming is that the L2 loss results in image blur.”
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Self-supervised learning based on context restoration leads to improved machine learning models for classification, localization, and segmentation.
“In all three cases, self-supervised learning based on context restoration learns useful semantic features and lead to improved machine learning models for the above tasks.”
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On a quarter of training data, data augmentation techniques can be advantageous over some self-supervised learning methods such as the CP method.
“On quarter of training data, the data augmentation techniques can be advantageous over some self-supervised learning methods such as the CP method.”
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When learning on half of training images, the F1-scores keep stable in most cases except where the SonoNet is pretrained based on context restoration.
“when learning on half of training images, the F1-scores keep stable in most cases except where the SonoNet is pretrained based on context restoration.”
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Context restoration pretraining improves the SonoNet performance the most.
“Our context restoration pretraining improves the SonoNet performance the most.”
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Image context restoration achieves qualitatively good results on brain MR, abdominal CT, and fetal US images.
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Data augmentation did not offer performance improvement in many cases.
“Data augmentation did not offer performance improvement in many cases.”
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Using 50% of the training set, the proposed self-supervision strategy offers similar performance to using the whole training set.
“using 50% of the training set, the proposed self-supervision strategy offers similar performance to using the whole training set.”
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The RP method provides more improvement than the JS method.
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The decrease in U-Net performance is not significant every time when the size of the training data halves.
“The decrease in U-Net performance is not significant every time when the size of the training data halves.”
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Pretraining based on context restoration results in more localization improvements.
“Importantly, pretraining based on context restoration results in more localization improvements.”
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In terms of left kidney, the CNN on half training data slightly outperforms that on all the training data.
“in terms of left kidney, the CNN on half training data slightly outperforms that on all the training data”
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In total, the results cannot verify that auto-encoding pretraining improves the CNN performance.
“In total, the results cannot verify auto-encoding pretraining improves the CNN performance.”
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U-Nets initialised by context restoration pretraining achieve the best performance in total.
“U-Nets (Ronneberger et al., 2015) initialised by context restoration pretraining achieve the best performance in total.”
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Data augmentation was observed to decrease the segmentation accuracy.
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In some cases, the CNN using context restoration pretraining is comparable to or even better than none pretraining on more annotated training data.
“In some cases, the CNN using context restoration pretraining is comparable to or even better than none pretraining on more annotated training data.”
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The differences in performance among different self-supervision strategies are not significant.
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These improvements cannot be achieved by CNNs using other pretraining strategies.
“These improvements cannot be achieved by CNNs using other pretraining strategies.”
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Self-supervision based on context restoration offers the best pretraining strategy for the segmentation task.
“self-supervision based on context restoration offers best pretraining strategy for the segmentation task.”
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Auto-encoding pretraining does not improve CNN performance.
“the auto-encoding pretraining does not improve CNN performance”
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Pretraining based on relative position prediction and context prediction improves the CNN performance.
“In contrast, pretraining based on relative position prediction and context prediction improves the CNN performance.”
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The performance using self-supervision based on context restoration approaches that of random initialisation on a larger dataset.
“The performance using self-supervision based on context restoration approaches that of random initialisation on a larger dataset.”
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We have validated the proposed context restoration pretraining on three types of representative tasks in medical image analysis: classification, localization, and segmentation.
“We have validated the proposed context restoration pretraining on three types of representative tasks in medical image analysis, which are classification, localization, and segmentation.”
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For pancreas, the performance of CNNs without pretraining decreases slightly when the training data halves.
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In all three tasks, context restoration pretraining outperforms other pretraining methods.
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For pancreas, performance decreases significantly when there is only quarter training data.
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For spleen, the CNN performance keeps decreasing rapidly with less and less training data.
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Within each group, the CNN pretrained using the auto-encoder sometimes improves the performance upon the baseline.
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In terms of spleen, the CNN on a quarter training data performs better than the one on half training data.
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The distance variance of centroid and walls in kidneys is significantly larger than that of other organs.
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On half training data, auto-encoder pretraining improves the centroid prediction of pancreas.
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In most cases, pretraining of relative position prediction and context prediction decreases the errors on baselines in terms of both centroid and walls.
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Auto-encoder pretraining is worse than the baseline in terms of liver.
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The proposed context restoration strategy learns semantic image features.
“The context restoration strategy has three major features: 1) it learns semantic image features;”
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“CNNs trained on this task focus on learning useful semantic features;”
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With self-supervised pretraining, the performance of CNNs when using small training sets can be improved.
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In the RP method, CNNs can complete the self-supervised learning task by learning trivial features, such as shared edges or corners of two patches, instead of semantic features useful for other discriminative tasks.
“Specifically, in the RP method, CNNs learns the shared edges or corners of two patches to predict their relative positions.”
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“it was reported that CNNs could complete the self-supervised learning tasks by learning trivial features, instead of semantic features that are useful in other discriminative tasks such as classification and segmentation.”
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The significant precision decrease with only slight recall decrease suggests a large number of false positives occur.
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Training a CNN to classify the 362,880 possible sequences of 9 patches in the jigsaw method is challenging in terms of model complexity and memory.
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The CP method is more useful for subsequent tasks than the RP method.
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Self-supervised learning is a good option to explore unlabelled images to improve CNN performance when only limited labelled data is available.
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Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Training CNNs only using a small number of labelled images cannot always achieve satisfactory results and does not exploit the potentially large number of unlabelled images that may be available.
- Rests on an assumption: It is usually easier to access a large number of unlabelled medical images rather than a large number of annotated images.
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Context restoration pretraining is applicable for different types of subsequent tasks by adjusting the CNN architecture according to that of the subsequent task.
“The proposed context restoration pretraining is applicable for different types of subsequent tasks by adjusting CNN architecture according to that of subsequent task.”
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The L2 reconstruction loss used in auto-encoders leads the auto-encoder to learn features that have limited value for discriminative tasks.
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The RP method can only provide limited improvements for subsequent tasks requiring global context, such as classification.
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Features learned by context restoration are useful for different types of subsequent image analysis tasks, including classification, localization, and segmentation.
“2) these image features are useful for different types of subsequent image analysis tasks;”
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“CNN features learned in this task are useful for different types of subsequent tasks including classification, localization, and segmentation;”
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Context restoration pretraining is more useful for image classification in this case.
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It is challenging for CNNs to distinguish two kidneys individually because of inter-subject variance.
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These results underline the advantages of the context restoration strategy.
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The JS method training is more likely to learn trivial features so that less useful image features can be learned.
“since the JS method training is more likely to learn trivial features so that less useful image features can be learned.”
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CNNs are more likely to make mistakes based on less training data.
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Subsequent task-specific CNNs benefit from this pretraining.
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The proposed self-supervised learning strategy based on context restoration enables CNNs to learn useful image semantics without any labels.
“This enables CNNs to learn useful image semantics without any labels.”
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Context restoration learning contributes to learning features for classification, localization/detection, and segmentation goals.
“Therefore, the context restoration learning contribute to learning features for these goals.”
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Findingown dataWhen the SonoNet is trained on a quarter of the training data, the precision decreases significantly while the recall only slightly decreases.
“when the SonoNet is trained on quarter of the training data, the precision decreases significantly while there is only slight decrease in terms of the recall.”
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Findingown dataIn all three tasks (classification, localization, and segmentation), pretraining based on context restoration is superior to other self-supervised learning strategies and to no self-supervised training.
“In all three tasks, the pretraining based on our context restoration strategy is superior to other self-supervised learning strategies, as well as no self-supervised training.”
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Findingown dataWhen the SonoNet is trained on half of the training data, the precision and recall both decrease, leading to a decrease in the F1-score.
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Findingown dataData augmentation does not lead to improvement when the SonoNet is trained on half data, but leads to obvious improvement when trained on a quarter of data.
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FindingreasoningThe SonoNet pretrained using context restoration can only offer marginal improvement on half data.
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Findingown dataWhen learning using only a quarter of training images, the SonoNet with feature initialisation from the auto-encoder pretraining still cannot improve the baseline, while SonoNets using other pretraining strategies perform better than the baseline.
“When learning using only a quarter of training images, the SonoNet with feature initialisation from the auto-encoder pretraining still cannot improve the baseline; while SonoNets using other pretraining strategies perform better than the baseline.”
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Findingnone givenFor liver, the CNN performance decreases sharply with half training data, while it remains stable with quarter training data.
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FindingreasoningAlthough the CNN pretrained using the RP method on quarter training data outperforms that using context restoration pretraining, it performs much worse in left kidney.
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FindingreasoningThe Dice score in enhanced tumour core, the sensitivity in non-enhanced and enhanced tumour cores, and the Hausdorff distances in all aspects are even slightly better.
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Findingown dataPretraining based on relative positions and context prediction tasks improves the segmentations but they are not as good as pretraining based on context restoration task.
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Premisenone givenFor many common problems in medical imaging such as classification, localization, and segmentation, learning image context is key.
“For many common problems in medical imaging such as classification, localization, and segmentation, learning image context is key.”
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InterpretationreasoningFor subsequent segmentation tasks, sharing the whole CNN architecture between pretraining and segmentation allows almost all weights to be initialised from self-supervised pretraining, resulting in better segmentation results.
“In case of subsequent segmentation tasks, the whole CNN architecture can be shared by the pretraining network and the subsequent segmentation network. As a result, almost all the weights of the subsequent segmentation CNN can be initialised using those learned in the self-supervised pretraining. This results in better segmentation results.”
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PremisecitationThe removal of context in the CP method changes the image intensity distribution, so the resulting images belong to another domain and the learned features may not be useful for images in the original domain.
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Premisenone givenPretrained models from the natural image domain are not useful in the medical imaging domain because the intensity distribution of natural images differs from that of medical images.
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PremisereasoningCNN weights learned in the CP method can initialise subsequent CNNs for classification and segmentation, while CNN weights learned in the RP method can initialise subsequent classification CNNs and only the analysis part of subsequent segmentation CNNs.
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InterpretationcitationFor subsequent classification tasks, the analysis part makes most contributions to context restoration, so the feature maps from the analysis part are more useful.
“In case of subsequent classification tasks, simple CNN layers with a few deconvolution layers are sufficient (see Fig. 3) (Doersch and Zisserman, 2017). In this condition, the analysis part makes most contributions to the context restoration. Therefore, the feature maps resulting from the analysis part are more useful.”
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PremisecitationMulti-task self-supervised learning requires significant computational resources, such as 64 GPUs for approximately 16.8K GPU hours.
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PremisecitationIn many medical image analysis problems, localizing anatomical structures is a prerequisite.
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PremisecitationThe L2 loss is sufficient for feature learning in context restoration, although the outputs may be blurry.
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InterpretationreasoningIn the half-data context-restoration scenario, the baseline is not far from the ceiling, so it is difficult to obtain improvements.
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Premisecitationde Vos et al. (2017) proposed a novel approach which can localize anatomical structures in 3D medical images.
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PremisecitationMulti-task self-supervised learning improves subsequent tasks more than single-task self-supervised learning.
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Premisenone givenExisting self-supervised learning strategies applicable to medical images cannot result in significant performance improvement and often lead to only marginal improvements.
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InterpretationreasoningThe CNNs for context restoration can be structured in flexible architectures depending on subsequent tasks.
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PremisecitationGliomas are routinely assessed using MR imaging.
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Interpretationnone givenThe implementation of the context restoration task is simple and straightforward, meaning that it can be widely used.
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InterpretationreasoningThe decrease in segmentation accuracy from data augmentation may be because the augmentation does not introduce any more useful variance in terms of tumour appearance.
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InterpretationreasoningThe decrease in segmentation accuracy from data augmentation may be because the augmentation introduces additional intensity variations which are not meaningful.
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PremisecitationThe Faster R-CNN is based on the pretraining of the VGG-Net.
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InterpretationreasoningThe decrease in segmentation accuracy from data augmentation may be because the segmentation is based on patches so a large number of image patches can be sampled.
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PremisecitationThis type of pretraining leads to good detection results in the Faster R-CNN.
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Interpretationnone givenIf less training data leads to significant decrease of results, self-supervised learning is likely to improve the results significantly.
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Interpretationown dataIf the reduction of training data causes significant performance decrease, the context restoration pretraining can offer significant performance improvement over the baselines.
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Interpretationnone givenCompared with existing strategies such as relative positions and context prediction, solving the context restoration task requires pattern recognition and prediction, which ensures the context restoration task offers more efficient image semantics.
“Compared with the existing strategies such as relative positions and context prediction, solving the context restoration task requires pattern recognition and prediction, which ensures the context restoration task offers more efficient image semantics.”
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Training CNNs only using a small number of labelled images cannot always achieve satisfactory results and does not exploit the potentially large number of unlabelled images that may be available.
“Training CNNs only using the small number of labelled images cannot always achieve satisfactory results and does not exploit the potentially large number of unlabelled images that may be available.”
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It is usually easier to access a large number of unlabelled medical images rather than a large number of annotated images.
“This means it is usually easier to access a large number of unlabelled medical images rather than a large number of annotated images.”
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In medical imaging, most images are in greyscale so that no colour information is available.
“In medical imaging, most images are in greyscale so that no colour information is available.”
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The key challenge for self-supervised learning is identifying a suitable self-supervision task, i.e. generating input and output instance pairs from data.
“The key challenge for self-supervised learning is identifying a suitable self supervision task, i.e. generating input and out-put instance pairs from data.”
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Manual cropping requires expert knowledge and is costly.
“However, manual cropping requires expert knowledge and costly.”
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Not all patients have two kidneys.
“This is because not all patients have two kidneys.”
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Gliomas are the major brain tumours occurring in adults.
“Gliomas are the major brain tumours occurring in adults.”
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Accurate segmentation of gliomas on MR image is a key step for quantification.
“Accurate segmentation of gliomas on MR image is a key step for quantification.”
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In medical image analysis, the image context is the common feature for classification, localization/detection, and segmentation tasks.
“Particularly, in medical image analysis, the image context is the common feature for classification, localization/detection, and segmentation tasks.”
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Corrupted dataset is defined as a function of itself
MinorThe first equation says the corrupted dataset is obtained by applying f to that same corrupted dataset. The later inverse mapping instead implies that f maps each original image to its corrupted version.
“a new dataset (1)χ˜=f(χ˜) is generated.”
“xi=g(x˜i)=f−1(x˜i)”
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- Authors
- Chen, L., Bentley, P., Mori, K., Misawa, K., Fujiwara, M., & Rueckert, D.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Nagoya University (JP)
- Aichi Cancer Center (JP)
- Nagoya University Hospital (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Chen, Liang
- Venue
- Medical Image Analysis
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-12
- Volume
- 58
- Pages
- 101539
- ISSN
- 1361-8415 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7613987
- OpenAlex
- W2964744899
- Semantic Scholar
- d6e78069dbbb35592f013187ef3432286def8f18
- Cited by
- 575
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 44 · 2025: 85 · 2024: 99 · 2023: 133 · 2022: 105 · 2021: 74 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 24.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Medical Image Analysis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (102431)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Keywords
- self-supervised learning, unlabeled data, CT images, brain tumor segmentation, multimodal MRI, image classification, image localization, image segmentation
- MeSH terms
- Abdomen, Supervised Machine Learning, Brain Neoplasms, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Ultrasonography, Prenatal
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