Summary of Lab-gatr: Geometric Algebra Transformers For Large Biomedical Surface and Volume Meshes, by Julian Suk et al.
LaB-GATr: geometric algebra transformers for large biomedical surface and volume meshes
by Julian Suk, Baris Imre, Jelmer M. Wolterink
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning approach is proposed to extract information from large-scale anatomical structures, such as surface and volume meshes, used in (bio-)medical applications. The challenge lies in designing deep neural network architectures that can effectively learn with these high-fidelity meshes, which often contain hundreds of thousands of vertices. To address this issue, the LaB-GATr transformer neural network is developed, featuring geometric tokenization, sequence compression, and interpolation. This architecture respects Euclidean symmetries, mitigating the problem of canonical alignment between patients. The method achieves state-of-the-art results on three tasks in cardiovascular hemodynamics modeling and neurodevelopmental phenotype prediction, using meshes with up to 200,000 vertices. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary LaB-GATr is a new way to use machine learning to understand big medical models. These models are made up of many tiny pieces called “meshes” that help doctors and researchers study the body. The problem is that these meshes can be really big and hard to work with. LaB-GATr helps solve this problem by changing how it looks at the meshes, so it can learn from them better. This means it can make more accurate predictions about things like blood flow in the heart or how babies develop. The results are very good and show that LaB-GATr could be used to help doctors and researchers do their jobs better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Machine learning * Neural network * Tokenization * Transformer
