Summary of Generalizable Single-source Cross-modality Medical Image Segmentation Via Invariant Causal Mechanisms, by Boqi Chen et al.
Generalizable Single-Source Cross-modality Medical Image Segmentation via Invariant Causal Mechanisms
by Boqi Chen, Yuanzhi Zhu, Yunke Ao, Sebastiano Caprara, Reto Sutter, Gunnar Rätsch, Ender Konukoglu, Anna Susmelj
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Nov 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 This paper tackles single-source domain generalization (SDG) for cross-modality medical image segmentation, a crucial task in computer vision. The authors combine causality-inspired insights on learning domain-invariant representations with diffusion-based augmentation to improve generalization across diverse imaging modalities. They leverage large-scale pretrained controlled diffusion models (DMs) to simulate diverse imaging styles while preserving content, guided by the “intervention-augmentation equivariant” principle. The approach is evaluated on challenging cross-modality segmentation tasks, demonstrating consistent outperformance of state-of-the-art SDG methods across three distinct anatomies and imaging modalities. Key contributions include a novel combination of theoretical insights and diffusion-based augmentation for SDG in medical image segmentation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you have a special machine that can take pictures of organs in the body, but it’s not very good at taking pictures of different types of organs or from different angles. To fix this problem, researchers developed a new way to make the machine learn from one type of picture and then apply what it learned to other types of pictures. They used a special kind of computer model that can change the way it looks at things in order to understand how to recognize different parts of the body. This approach worked better than previous methods, even when trying to identify different organs or tissues in medical images. The new method has the potential to improve our ability to diagnose and treat diseases. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Domain generalization * Generalization * Image segmentation
