Summary of Large-scale 3d Medical Image Pre-training with Geometric Context Priors, by Linshan Wu et al.
Large-Scale 3D Medical Image Pre-training with Geometric Context Priors
by Linshan Wu, Jiaxin Zhuang, Hao Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to medical image analysis called Volume Contrast (VoCo) that leverages geometric context priors for self-supervision. By extracting base crops from different regions of an input volume and predicting the contextual position of a random crop, VoCo encodes inherent geometric context into model representations. This allows for high-level semantic learning without annotations. The authors introduce the largest medical pre-training dataset PreCT-160K and investigate scaling laws to propose guidelines for tailoring different model sizes to various medical tasks. They also build a benchmark encompassing 48 medical tasks, showing the superiority of VoCo. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Medical images are hard to analyze because there aren’t enough labels. A new way to solve this problem is by training big models on lots of data without labels. But this doesn’t work well with medical images. The authors found that medical images have something called geometric context, which means that different organs in the body have consistent shapes and relationships. They used this idea to create a new method called VoCo that can learn from unlabeled data. This helps models understand what’s important without needing labels. The authors also created a big dataset of medical images and tested their method on many different tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Scaling laws
