CoMoTo: Unpaired Cross-Modal Lesion Distillation Improves Breast Lesion Detection in Tomosynthesis

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Autores principales: Alberb, Muhammad, Elbatel, Marawan, Elgebaly, Aya, Montoya-del-Angel, Ricardo, Li, Xiaomeng, Martí, Robert
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author Alberb, Muhammad
Elbatel, Marawan
Elgebaly, Aya
Montoya-del-Angel, Ricardo
Li, Xiaomeng
Martí, Robert
author_facet Alberb, Muhammad
Elbatel, Marawan
Elgebaly, Aya
Montoya-del-Angel, Ricardo
Li, Xiaomeng
Martí, Robert
contents Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is an advanced breast imaging modality that offers superior lesion detection accuracy compared to conventional mammography, albeit at the trade-off of longer reading time. Accelerating lesion detection from DBT using deep learning is hindered by limited data availability and huge annotation costs. A possible solution to this issue could be to leverage the information provided by a more widely available modality, such as mammography, to enhance DBT lesion detection. In this paper, we present a novel framework, CoMoTo, for improving lesion detection in DBT. Our framework leverages unpaired mammography data to enhance the training of a DBT model, improving practicality by eliminating the need for mammography during inference. Specifically, we propose two novel components, Lesion-specific Knowledge Distillation (LsKD) and Intra-modal Point Alignment (ImPA). LsKD selectively distills lesion features from a mammography teacher model to a DBT student model, disregarding background features. ImPA further enriches LsKD by ensuring the alignment of lesion features within the teacher before distilling knowledge to the student. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that CoMoTo is superior to traditional pretraining and image-level KD, improving performance by 7% Mean Sensitivity under low-data setting. Our code is available at https://github.com/Muhammad-Al-Barbary/CoMoTo .
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spellingShingle CoMoTo: Unpaired Cross-Modal Lesion Distillation Improves Breast Lesion Detection in Tomosynthesis
Alberb, Muhammad
Elbatel, Marawan
Elgebaly, Aya
Montoya-del-Angel, Ricardo
Li, Xiaomeng
Martí, Robert
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is an advanced breast imaging modality that offers superior lesion detection accuracy compared to conventional mammography, albeit at the trade-off of longer reading time. Accelerating lesion detection from DBT using deep learning is hindered by limited data availability and huge annotation costs. A possible solution to this issue could be to leverage the information provided by a more widely available modality, such as mammography, to enhance DBT lesion detection. In this paper, we present a novel framework, CoMoTo, for improving lesion detection in DBT. Our framework leverages unpaired mammography data to enhance the training of a DBT model, improving practicality by eliminating the need for mammography during inference. Specifically, we propose two novel components, Lesion-specific Knowledge Distillation (LsKD) and Intra-modal Point Alignment (ImPA). LsKD selectively distills lesion features from a mammography teacher model to a DBT student model, disregarding background features. ImPA further enriches LsKD by ensuring the alignment of lesion features within the teacher before distilling knowledge to the student. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that CoMoTo is superior to traditional pretraining and image-level KD, improving performance by 7% Mean Sensitivity under low-data setting. Our code is available at https://github.com/Muhammad-Al-Barbary/CoMoTo .
title CoMoTo: Unpaired Cross-Modal Lesion Distillation Improves Breast Lesion Detection in Tomosynthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17620