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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.
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- 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 the performance in all three metrics.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Experiments and results > Fetal standard scan plane classification
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“Initialising by pretrained features, particularly those from context restoration tasks, improves the CNN performance.”
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“A shortcoming is that the L2 loss results in image blur.”
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“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 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.”
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“Our context restoration pretraining improves the SonoNet performance the most.”
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“In all cases, the image context restoration achieve qualitatively good results.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Introduction
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“When the SonoNet is trained on half of the training data, the precision and recall both decrease, which lead to the decrease of the F1-score.”
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“Data augmentation does not lead to improvement when the SonoNet is trained on half data; while it lead to obvious improvement when the SonoNet is trained on quarter of data.”
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“The SonoNet pretrained using context restoration can only offers marginal improvement.”
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“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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“in terms of the liver, the CNN performance decreases sharply with half training data; while it remains stable with quarter training data.”
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“Although 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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“The 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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“pretraining based on relative positions and context prediction tasks improves the segmentations but they are not as good as the pretraining based on the context restoration task.”
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“For many common problems in medical imaging such as classification, localization, and segmentation, learning image context is key.”
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“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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“However, the removal of context changes the image intensity distribution. Thus 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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- Not checked yetcites Pathak et al., 2016
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“The pretrained models from the natural image domain are not useful in the medical imaging domain since the intensity distribution of natural images is different from that of medical images.”
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“Since each data instance is regarded as one class, the exemplar learning method is difficult to apply to large datasets.”
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“More precisely, the CNN weights learned in the CP method can be used to 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 the subsequent segmentation CNNs.”
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“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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“This may because the augmented images do not cover the variance of organ shapes and positions and introduce additional variance to pixel intensities.”
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“The disadvantage of multi-task self-supervised learning is the training requires significant computational resources, i.e. 64 GPUs for approximately 16.8K GPU hours.”
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“In many medical image analysis problems, localization anatomical structures is a prerequisite.”
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“As suggested by Pathak et al. (2016), the L2 loss is sufficient for feature learning although the outputs from context restoration outputs may be blurry.”
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“In this scenario, the baseline (i.e. random initialisation) is not far away from the ceiling (i.e. SonoNet on the whole training set). Therefore, it is difficult to obtain improvements.”
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“de Vos et al. (2017) proposed a novel approach which can localize anatomical structures in 3D medical images.”
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“The results showed that multitask self-supervised learning improves subsequent tasks more than single-task self-supervised learning.”
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“However, existing self-supervised learning strategies applicable to medical images cannot result in significant performance improvement. Therefore, they often lead to only marginal improvements.”
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“the CNNs for context restoration can be structured in flexible architectures depending on subsequent tasks.”
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“They are routinely assessed using MR imaging (Bakas et al., 2017b).”
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“In computer vision, many CNNs are pretrained before the main task.”
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“the implementation of the context restoration task is simple and straightforward, meaning that it can be widely used.”
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“2) The augmentation does not introduce any more useful variance in terms of tumour appearance.”
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“3) The augmentation introduces additional intensity variations which are not meaningful.”
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“the Faster R-CNN (Ren et al., 2015) is based on the pretraining of the VGG-Net (Simonyan and Zis-serman, 2014).”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Discussion and conclusion
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- Not checked yetcites Ren et al., 2015
- Not checked yetcites Simonyan and Zis-serman, 2014
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“which may because of three reasons: 1) The segmentation is based on patches so a large number of image patches can be sampled.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Experiments and results > Brain tumour segmentation
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“We conclude from the existing self-supervised feature learning literature that the ideal pretraining task should have similar goal to the subsequent task.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Discussion and conclusion
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“This type of pretraining leads to good detection results in the Faster R-CNN.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Discussion and conclusion
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- Not checked yetcites Ren et al., 2015
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“It is noteworthy that if less training data leads to significant decrease of results, self-supervised learning is likely to improve the results significantly.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Experiments and results > Abdominal multi-organ localization
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“if the reduction of training data causes significant performance decrease, the context restoration pretraining can offer significant performance improvement over the baselines.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Discussion and conclusion
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“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.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Discussion and conclusion
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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.”
The paper relies on this without support.
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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§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Self-supervision based on context restoration > Context restoration
“a new dataset (1)χ˜=f(χ˜) is generated.”
§ Self-supervised learning for medical image analysis using image context restoration > Self-supervision based on context restoration > Context restoration
“xi=g(x˜i)=f−1(x˜i)”
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Metadata
- 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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