Summary of Self Pre-training with Topology- and Spatiality-aware Masked Autoencoders For 3d Medical Image Segmentation, by Pengfei Gu et al.
Self Pre-training with Topology- and Spatiality-aware Masked Autoencoders for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
by Pengfei Gu, Yejia Zhang, Huimin Li, Chaoli Wang, Danny Z. Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Jun 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 This paper proposes an extension to Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) for self-pretraining in 3D medical image segmentation tasks. The existing MAE pre-training methods lack geometric shape and spatial information, which is crucial for medical image segmentation. The authors introduce a novel topological loss to preserve geometric shape information by computing topological signatures of input and reconstructed volumes. They also propose a pre-text task that predicts the positions of centers and eight corners of 3D crops, enabling the MAE to aggregate spatial information. The proposed approach is extended to a hybrid state-of-the-art medical image segmentation architecture, which is co-pretrained with the ViT encoder. Extensive experiments on five public 3D segmentation datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of this new approach. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper improves how computers do medical imaging tasks by using a special kind of AI called Masked Autoencoders (MAEs). The current MAE methods are good, but they don’t capture important information about shapes and spatial relationships. To fix this, the authors create a new way to train the MAEs that preserves shape information and predicts where parts of images are. They also combine this approach with another AI model called Vision Transformers (ViTs) to make it even better. The results show that their method is highly effective in five different medical imaging tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Encoder » Image segmentation » Mae » Pretraining » Vit
