In this work we propose a method for anatomical data augmentation that is based on using slices of computed tomography (CT) examinations that are adjacent to labeled slices as another resource of labeled data for training the network. The extended labeled data is used to train a U-net network for a pixel-wise classific…
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Automated Intracranial Artery Labeling using a Graph Neural Network and Hierarchical Refinementcs.CV
Automated labeling of intracranial arteries improves accuracy and efficiency.
problem Challenges in accurately labeling intracranial arteries due to variations and limited datasets.
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) combined with hierarchical refinement for improved accuracy.
result Achieved 97.5% node labeling accuracy on a testing set of 105 scans.
We describe an adversarial learning approach to constrain convolutional neural network training for image registration, replacing heuristic smoothness measures of displacement fields often used in these tasks. Using minimally-invasive prostate cancer intervention as an example application, we demonstrate the feasibilit…
We present a novel approach to automatically segment magnetic resonance (MR) images of the human brain into anatomical regions. Our methodology is based on a deep artificial neural network that assigns each voxel in an MR image of the brain to its corresponding anatomical region. The inputs of the network capture infor…
This work is an endeavor to develop a deep learning methodology for automated anatomical labeling of a given region of interest (ROI) in brain computed tomography (CT) scans. We combine both local and global context to obtain a representation of the ROI. We then use Relation Networks (RNs) to predict the corresponding …
Method synthesizes 4D CMR images from XCAT model using GAN and SPADE.
problem Synthesizing realistic 4D CMR images with annotations and adaptable styles.
method Hybrid GAN approach with XCAT anatomical ground truth and SPADE for semantic preservation.
result Synthesized images with modality-specific features learned from real CMR data.
Method generates anatomically-controllable medical images with segmentation guidance.
problem Challenging to enforce anatomical constraints in generated medical images.
method Segmentation-guided diffusion models with random mask ablation training.
result New state-of-the-art in faithfulness to input anatomical masks.
Paper introduces conformal prediction for reliable uncertainty quantification in landmark localization.
problem Systematic underestimation of total predictive uncertainty in landmark localization.
method Conformal prediction framework for multi-output regression, generating flexible prediction regions.
result Methods outperform existing approaches in validity and efficiency across 2D and 3D datasets.
Comprehensive surgical planning require complex patient-specific anatomical models. For instance, functional muskuloskeletal simulations necessitate all relevant structures to be segmented, which could be performed in real-time using deep neural networks given sufficient annotated samples. Such large datasets of multip…
Exploiting Epistemic Uncertainty of Anatomy Segmentation for Anomaly Detection in Retinal OCTeess.IV
Diagnosis and treatment guidance are aided by detecting relevant biomarkers in medical images. Although supervised deep learning can perform accurate segmentation of pathological areas, it is limited by requiring a-priori definitions of these regions, large-scale annotations, and a representative patient cohort in the …
MosaicMRI expands public datasets for musculoskeletal MRI, revealing cross-anatomical correlations.
problem Limited diversity in public MRI datasets hinders model evaluation across different anatomical settings.
method Developed a large, diverse dataset (MosaicMRI) and conducted experiments on a baseline model (VarNet).
result Models trained on combined anatomies outperform anatomy-specific models in low-sample regimes.
CORES2 removes noisy labels by sieving out corrupted examples.
problem Instance-dependent label noise degrades DNN performance.
method CORES2 (COnfidence REgularized Sample Sieve) progressively sieves out corrupted examples.
result CORES2 provides theoretical guarantees for filtering out corrupted examples.
Background: A universal unanswered question in neuroscience and machine learning is whether computers can decode the patterns of the human brain. Multi-Voxels Pattern Analysis (MVPA) is a critical tool for addressing this question. However, there are two challenges in the previous MVPA methods, which include decreasing…
A universal unanswered question in neuroscience and machine learning is whether computers can decode the patterns of the human brain. Multi-Voxels Pattern Analysis (MVPA) is a critical tool for addressing this question. However, there are two challenges in the previous MVPA methods, which include decreasing sparsity an…
Despite its size and complexity, the human cortex exhibits striking anatomical regularities, suggesting there may simple meta-algorithms underlying cortical learning and computation. We expect such meta-algorithms to be of interest since they need to operate quickly, scalably and effectively with little-to-no specializ…
Purpose: We perform anatomical landmarking for craniomaxillofacial (CMF) bones without explicitly segmenting them. Towards this, we propose a new simple yet efficient deep network architecture, called \textit{relational reasoning network (RRN)}, to accurately learn the local and the global relations among the landmarks…
In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning framework for anatomy segmentation and automatic landmark- ing. Specifically, we focus on the challenging problem of mandible segmentation from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans and identification of 9 anatomical landmarks of the mandible on the geodesic space. T…
Improved 3D ECG feature attributions for clinical interpretation.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for 12-lead ECG analysis.
method Cross-modal mapping of feature attributions from 12-lead ECG models onto CineECG 3D space.
result Mapped feature attributions yield higher Dice scores than standard 12-lead attributions.
Spatially-aware metrics improve uncertainty evaluation in segmentation.
problem Uncertainty evaluation metrics treat voxels independently, ignoring spatial context.
method Proposed three spatially aware metrics incorporating structural and boundary information.
result Improved alignment with clinically important factors and better discrimination between uncertainty patterns.
New GPU-based algorithm for fast optimal transport on brain tractograms.
problem Efficiently comparing and transferring labels in brain tractograms.
method Multiscale algorithm using Sinkhorn divergences on GPU.
result Smooth assignments for label transfer in tractograms.
Creating large scale high-quality annotations is a known challenge in medical imaging. In this work, based on the CycleGAN algorithm, we propose leveraging annotations from one modality to be useful in other modalities. More specifically, the proposed algorithm creates highly realistic synthetic CT images (SynCT) from …
Colour vision has long fascinated scientists, who have sought to understand both the physiology of the mechanics of colour vision and the psychophysics of colour perception. We consider representations of colour in anatomically constrained convolutional deep neural networks. Following ideas from neuroscience, we classi…
Multi-subject fMRI data analysis is an interesting and challenging problem in human brain decoding studies. The inherent anatomical and functional variability across subjects make it necessary to do both anatomical and functional alignment before classification analysis. Besides, when it comes to big data, time complex…
Decision support tools that rely on supervised learning require large amounts of expert annotations. Using past radiological reports obtained from hospital archiving systems has many advantages as training data above manual single-class labels: they are expert annotations available in large quantities, covering a popul…
VarDeepPCA refines medical image segmentation from small datasets, improving anatomical plausibility and reducing errors.
problem Medical image segmentation fails on out-of-distribution data due to variations in scanners and protocols.
method VarDeepPCA learns valid anatomical geometries using only small in-distribution datasets, providing uncertainty estimates.
result VarDeepPCA restores segmentation maps to OOD data, improving anatomical plausibility and reducing errors.
A Wide and Deep Neural Network for Survival Analysis from Anatomical Shape and Tabular Clinical Datacs.LG
We introduce a wide and deep neural network for prediction of progression from patients with mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. Information from anatomical shape and tabular clinical data (demographics, biomarkers) are fused in a single neural network. The network is invariant to shape transformations an…
We propose a method to generate multiple diverse and valid human pose hypotheses in 3D all consistent with the 2D detection of joints in a monocular RGB image. We use a novel generative model uniform (unbiased) in the space of anatomically plausible 3D poses. Our model is compositional (produces a pose by combining par…
Early diagnosis, playing an important role in preventing progress and treating the Alzheimer\{'}s disease (AD), is based on classification of features extracted from brain images. The features have to accurately capture main AD-related variations of anatomical brain structures, such as, e.g., ventricles size, hippocamp…
Early diagnosis, playing an important role in preventing progress and treating the Alzheimer's disease (AD), is based on classification of features extracted from brain images. The features have to accurately capture main AD-related variations of anatomical brain structures, such as, e.g., ventricles size, hippocampus …
VNNs transfer well across datasets for brain age prediction using cortical thickness features.
problem Predicting brain age using anatomical features.
method Transferability of coVariance neural networks (VNNs) in brain age prediction.
result VNNs can assign anatomical interpretability to elevated brain age gap in AD.
Inter-subject registration of cortical areas is necessary in functional imaging (fMRI) studies for making inferences about equivalent brain function across a population. However, many high-level visual brain areas are defined as peaks of functional contrasts whose cortical position is highly variable. As such, most ali…
Adapts deep learning models trained on simulated images for use with real images.
problem Difficulty in training deep neural networks on large amounts of experimental data.
method Adversarial domain adaptation method to mitigate domain shift between simulated and experimental image data.
result Adversarial domain adaptation successfully mitigates domain shift and improves numerical observer performance.
Defines metrics to compare neural network representations.
problem Comparing neural network representations across different architectures and tasks.
method Developed a family of metric spaces and modified existing measures to quantify representational dissimilarity.
result Identified relationships between neural representations and anatomical features.
GNNs improve brain activity forecasting in fMRI studies.
problem Understanding neural dynamics in the brain.
method Comparison of GNN architectures for modeling fMRI data.
result GNNs outperform VAR models in robustly scaling to large network studies.
Electromagnetic stimulation of the human brain is a key tool for the neurophysiological characterization and diagnosis of several neurological disorders. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is one procedure that is commonly used clinically. However, personalized TMS requires a pipeline for accurate head model gener…
A simple strategy prevents negative transfer in transfer learning.
problem Negative transfer in transfer learning where source representations harm target performance.
method Residual feature integration with a trainable target-side encoder.
result The method provably prevents negative transfer with theoretical guarantees.
This research uses Siamese networks to identify partial mouse brain images from the Allen atlas.
problem Identifying precise mouse brain microscopy images from the Allen atlas.
method Siamese Networks with contrastive learning to find corresponding atlas plates for partial images.
result Siamese CNNs achieved 25% TOP-1 and 100% TOP-5 accuracy in identifying brain slices from the Allen atlas.
Adapts CNN for robust medical image segmentation across different scanners and protocols.
problem Performance degradation of CNNs in medical image segmentation due to mismatch between training and test images.
method Designs a segmentation CNN as a concatenation of a shallow normalization CNN and a deep CNN. At test time, adapts the normalization sub-network for each test image using a denoising autoencoder.
result Consistently improves performance on multi-center MRI datasets of brain, heart, and prostate.
Recent work suggests goal-driven training of neural networks can be used to model neural activity in the brain. While response properties of neurons in artificial neural networks bear similarities to those in the brain, the network architectures are often constrained to be different. Here we ask if a neural network can…
Researchers apply concept-based explainability to EEG data.
problem Understanding the internal states of complex EEG transformer models.
method Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) adapted for EEG data, using externally labeled datasets and anatomically defined concepts.
result Both approaches to concept formation yield valuable insights into EEG model representations.
Unified approach for neural networks with multi-compartmental neurons and non-Hebbian plasticity.
problem Limited computational power of existing neural network models for multi-compartmental neurons and non-Hebbian plasticity.
method Unified extension of similarity matching approach to derive neural networks with multi-compartmental neurons and local, non-Hebbian learning rules.
result Unified approach facilitates understanding of multi-compartmental neuronal structures and non-Hebbian plasticity.
Objective: Schizophrenia seriously affects the quality of life. To date, both simple (linear discriminant analysis) and complex (deep neural network) machine learning methods have been utilized to identify schizophrenia based on functional connectivity features. The existing simple methods need two separate steps (i.e.…
We will prove that the generalized Lie algebroid is a distinguished example by Lie algebroid. The generality of it with respect to the Lie algebroid is similar with the generality of the pull-back vector bundle with respect to the vector bundle. Next, we will prove that the proof of Theorem 3.1 from [15] is a misconcep…
The use of machine learning (ML) algorithms has significantly increased in neuroscience. However, from the vast extent of possible ML algorithms, which one is the optimal model to predict the target variable? What are the hyperparameters for such a model? Given the plethora of possible answers to these questions, in th…
Novel method embeds generative model into Bayesian optimization for HD cardiac model parameter estimation.
problem High-dimensional optimization of patient-specific cardiac model parameters with limited data.
method Embeds a generative variational auto-encoder into the objective function of Bayesian optimization.
result Improves accuracy of parameter estimation with more than 10x gain in efficiency.
VarDeepPCA: A Sampling-Free Variational DNN Plugin for OOD Segmentation with Uncertainty Estimation
problem Deep neural networks (DNNs) fail to generalize to out-of-distribution (OOD) medical images due to variations in scanners and acquisition protocols.
method VarDeepPCA is a lightweight variational DNN framework that learns a distribution of valid anatomical geometries using small in-distribution datasets.
result VarDeepPCA restores segmentation maps produced by existing methods on OOD data to improve anatomical plausibility and reduce errors.
Probabilistic atlases provide essential spatial contextual information for image interpretation, Bayesian modeling, and algorithmic processing. Such atlases are typically constructed by grouping subjects with similar demographic information. Importantly, use of the same scanner minimizes inter-group variability. Howeve…
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
problem Comparing medical images for distribution or domain differences.
method Developed a new metric FRD using standardized radiomic features.
result FRD outperforms other metrics in various medical imaging applications.