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Zhang, Qiang, Bhalerao, Abhir and Hutchinson, Charles E. (2017) Weakly-supervised evidence pinpointing and description. In: Niethammer, M., (ed.) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10265 . Cham: Springer, pp. 210-222. ISBN 9783319590493
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59050-9_17
Abstract
We propose a learning method to identify which specific regions and features of images contribute to a certain classification. In the medical imaging context, they can be the evidence regions where the abnormalities are most likely to appear, and the discriminative features of these regions supporting the pathology classification. The learning is weakly-supervised requiring only the pathological labels and no other prior knowledge. The method can also be applied to learn the salient description of an anatomy discriminative from its background, in order to localise the anatomy before a classification step. We formulate evidence pinpointing as a sparse descriptor learning problem. Because of the large computational complexity, the objective function is composed in a stochastic way and is optimised by the Regularised Dual Averaging algorithm. We demonstrate that the learnt feature descriptors contain more specific and better discriminative information than hand-crafted descriptors contributing to superior performance for the tasks of anatomy localisation and pathology classification respectively. We apply our method on the problem of lumbar spinal stenosis for localising and classifying vertebrae in MRI images. Experimental results show that our method when trained with only target labels achieves better or competitive performance on both tasks compared with strongly-supervised methods requiring labels and multiple landmarks. A further improvement is achieved with training on additional weakly annotated data, which gives robust localisation with average error within 2 mm and classification accuracies close to human performance.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software R Medicine > RD Surgery |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Magnetic resonance imaging, Spinal canal -- Stenosis -- Diagnosis | ||||
| Series Name: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Information Processing in Medical Imaging 2017 | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Cham | ||||
| ISBN: | 9783319590493 | ||||
| Book Title: | Information Processing in Medical Imaging. IPMI 2017 | ||||
| Editor: | Niethammer, M. | ||||
| Official Date: | 9 February 2017 | ||||
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| Volume: | 10265 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 210-222 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-59050-9_17 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
| Title of Event: | Information Processing in Medical Imaging 2017 | ||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
| Location of Event: | Boone, North Carolina, USA | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 25-30 Jun 2017 | ||||
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