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| author | Di Via, Roberto Santacesaria, Matteo Odone, Francesca Pastore, Vito Paolo |
| author_facet | Di Via, Roberto Santacesaria, Matteo Odone, Francesca Pastore, Vito Paolo |
| contents | In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a promising technique for medical image analysis. However, this application domain is likely to suffer from a limited availability of large public datasets and annotations. A common solution to these challenges in deep learning is the usage of a transfer learning framework, typically with a fine-tuning protocol, where a large-scale source dataset is used to pre-train a model, further fine-tuned on the target dataset. In this paper, we present a systematic study analyzing whether the usage of small-scale in-domain x-ray image datasets may provide any improvement for landmark detection over models pre-trained on large natural image datasets only. We focus on the multi-landmark localization task for three datasets, including chest, head, and hand x-ray images. Our results show that using in-domain source datasets brings marginal or no benefit with respect to an ImageNet out-of-domain pre-training. Our findings can provide an indication for the development of robust landmark detection systems in medical images when no large annotated dataset is available. |
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| spellingShingle | Is in-domain data beneficial in transfer learning for landmarks detection in x-ray images? Di Via, Roberto Santacesaria, Matteo Odone, Francesca Pastore, Vito Paolo Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a promising technique for medical image analysis. However, this application domain is likely to suffer from a limited availability of large public datasets and annotations. A common solution to these challenges in deep learning is the usage of a transfer learning framework, typically with a fine-tuning protocol, where a large-scale source dataset is used to pre-train a model, further fine-tuned on the target dataset. In this paper, we present a systematic study analyzing whether the usage of small-scale in-domain x-ray image datasets may provide any improvement for landmark detection over models pre-trained on large natural image datasets only. We focus on the multi-landmark localization task for three datasets, including chest, head, and hand x-ray images. Our results show that using in-domain source datasets brings marginal or no benefit with respect to an ImageNet out-of-domain pre-training. Our findings can provide an indication for the development of robust landmark detection systems in medical images when no large annotated dataset is available. |
| title | Is in-domain data beneficial in transfer learning for landmarks detection in x-ray images? |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01470 |