Summary of Unified Cross-modal Image Synthesis with Hierarchical Mixture Of Product-of-experts, by Reuben Dorent et al.
Unified Cross-Modal Image Synthesis with Hierarchical Mixture of Product-of-Experts
by Reuben Dorent, Nazim Haouchine, Alexandra Golby, Sarah Frisken, Tina Kapur, William Wells
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed MMHVAE model synthesizes missing images from observed images in different modalities by tackling four key challenges: creating a complex latent representation, estimating missing information, fusing multimodal data, and leveraging dataset-level information. This deep mixture of multimodal hierarchical variational auto-encoders is designed to generate high-resolution images and handle incomplete datasets at training time. Experiments are conducted on pre-operative brain multi-parametric magnetic resonance and intra-operative ultrasound imaging, a challenging problem. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers created a new way to fill in missing information from different types of medical scans. They called it MMHVAE, which stands for “deep mixture of multimodal hierarchical variational auto-encoders.” This helps generate high-quality images by combining data from different modalities like MRI and ultrasound. The team tested this on brain imaging, which is a complex task. |
