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Main Authors: Di Via, Roberto, Odone, Francesca, Pastore, Vito Paolo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18125
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author Di Via, Roberto
Odone, Francesca
Pastore, Vito Paolo
author_facet Di Via, Roberto
Odone, Francesca
Pastore, Vito Paolo
contents Deep neural networks have been extensively applied in the medical domain for various tasks, including image classification, segmentation, and landmark detection. However, their application is often hindered by data scarcity, both in terms of available annotations and images. This study introduces a novel application of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) to the landmark detection task, specifically addressing the challenge of limited annotated data in x-ray imaging. Our key innovation lies in leveraging DDPMs for self-supervised pre-training in landmark detection, a previously unexplored approach in this domain. This method enables accurate landmark detection with minimal annotated training data (as few as 50 images), surpassing both ImageNet supervised pre-training and traditional self-supervised techniques across three popular x-ray benchmark datasets. To our knowledge, this work represents the first application of diffusion models for self-supervised learning in landmark detection, which may offer a valuable pre-training approach in few-shot regimes, for mitigating data scarcity.
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spellingShingle Self-supervised pre-training with diffusion model for few-shot landmark detection in x-ray images
Di Via, Roberto
Odone, Francesca
Pastore, Vito Paolo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Deep neural networks have been extensively applied in the medical domain for various tasks, including image classification, segmentation, and landmark detection. However, their application is often hindered by data scarcity, both in terms of available annotations and images. This study introduces a novel application of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) to the landmark detection task, specifically addressing the challenge of limited annotated data in x-ray imaging. Our key innovation lies in leveraging DDPMs for self-supervised pre-training in landmark detection, a previously unexplored approach in this domain. This method enables accurate landmark detection with minimal annotated training data (as few as 50 images), surpassing both ImageNet supervised pre-training and traditional self-supervised techniques across three popular x-ray benchmark datasets. To our knowledge, this work represents the first application of diffusion models for self-supervised learning in landmark detection, which may offer a valuable pre-training approach in few-shot regimes, for mitigating data scarcity.
title Self-supervised pre-training with diffusion model for few-shot landmark detection in x-ray images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18125