Intra-video Positive Pairs in Self-Supervised Learning for Ultrasound

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Autori principali: VanBerlo, Blake, Wong, Alexander, Hoey, Jesse, Arntfield, Robert
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author VanBerlo, Blake
Wong, Alexander
Hoey, Jesse
Arntfield, Robert
author_facet VanBerlo, Blake
Wong, Alexander
Hoey, Jesse
Arntfield, Robert
contents Self-supervised learning (SSL) is one strategy for addressing the paucity of labelled data in medical imaging by learning representations from unlabelled images. Contrastive and non-contrastive SSL methods produce learned representations that are similar for pairs of related images. Such pairs are commonly constructed by randomly distorting the same image twice. The videographic nature of ultrasound offers flexibility for defining the similarity relationship between pairs of images. In this study, we investigated the effect of utilizing proximal, distinct images from the same B-mode ultrasound video as pairs for SSL. Additionally, we introduced a sample weighting scheme that increases the weight of closer image pairs and demonstrated how it can be integrated into SSL objectives. Named Intra-Video Positive Pairs (IVPP), the method surpassed previous ultrasound-specific contrastive learning methods' average test accuracy on COVID-19 classification with the POCUS dataset by $\ge 1.3\%$. Detailed investigations of IVPP's hyperparameters revealed that some combinations of IVPP hyperparameters can lead to improved or worsened performance, depending on the downstream task. Guidelines for practitioners were synthesized based on the results, such as the merit of IVPP with task-specific hyperparameters, and the improved performance of contrastive methods for ultrasound compared to non-contrastive counterparts.
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spellingShingle Intra-video Positive Pairs in Self-Supervised Learning for Ultrasound
VanBerlo, Blake
Wong, Alexander
Hoey, Jesse
Arntfield, Robert
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.10; I.4.9; J.3
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is one strategy for addressing the paucity of labelled data in medical imaging by learning representations from unlabelled images. Contrastive and non-contrastive SSL methods produce learned representations that are similar for pairs of related images. Such pairs are commonly constructed by randomly distorting the same image twice. The videographic nature of ultrasound offers flexibility for defining the similarity relationship between pairs of images. In this study, we investigated the effect of utilizing proximal, distinct images from the same B-mode ultrasound video as pairs for SSL. Additionally, we introduced a sample weighting scheme that increases the weight of closer image pairs and demonstrated how it can be integrated into SSL objectives. Named Intra-Video Positive Pairs (IVPP), the method surpassed previous ultrasound-specific contrastive learning methods' average test accuracy on COVID-19 classification with the POCUS dataset by $\ge 1.3\%$. Detailed investigations of IVPP's hyperparameters revealed that some combinations of IVPP hyperparameters can lead to improved or worsened performance, depending on the downstream task. Guidelines for practitioners were synthesized based on the results, such as the merit of IVPP with task-specific hyperparameters, and the improved performance of contrastive methods for ultrasound compared to non-contrastive counterparts.
title Intra-video Positive Pairs in Self-Supervised Learning for Ultrasound
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.10; I.4.9; J.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07715