Can language-guided unsupervised adaptation improve medical image classification using unpaired images and texts?

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Auteurs principaux: Rahman, Umaima, Imam, Raza, Yaqub, Mohammad, Amor, Boulbaba Ben, Mahapatra, Dwarikanath
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author Rahman, Umaima
Imam, Raza
Yaqub, Mohammad
Amor, Boulbaba Ben
Mahapatra, Dwarikanath
author_facet Rahman, Umaima
Imam, Raza
Yaqub, Mohammad
Amor, Boulbaba Ben
Mahapatra, Dwarikanath
contents In medical image classification, supervised learning is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled medical images. To address this, we leverage the visual-textual alignment within Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable unsupervised learning of a medical image classifier. In this work, we propose \underline{Med}ical \underline{Un}supervised \underline{A}daptation (\texttt{MedUnA}) of VLMs, where the LLM-generated descriptions for each class are encoded into text embeddings and matched with class labels via a cross-modal adapter. This adapter attaches to a visual encoder of \texttt{MedCLIP} and aligns the visual embeddings through unsupervised learning, driven by a contrastive entropy-based loss and prompt tuning. Thereby, improving performance in scenarios where textual information is more abundant than labeled images, particularly in the healthcare domain. Unlike traditional VLMs, \texttt{MedUnA} uses \textbf{unpaired images and text} for learning representations and enhances the potential of VLMs beyond traditional constraints. We evaluate the performance on three chest X-ray datasets and two multi-class datasets (diabetic retinopathy and skin lesions), showing significant accuracy gains over the zero-shot baseline. Our code is available at https://github.com/rumaima/meduna.
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spellingShingle Can language-guided unsupervised adaptation improve medical image classification using unpaired images and texts?
Rahman, Umaima
Imam, Raza
Yaqub, Mohammad
Amor, Boulbaba Ben
Mahapatra, Dwarikanath
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In medical image classification, supervised learning is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled medical images. To address this, we leverage the visual-textual alignment within Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable unsupervised learning of a medical image classifier. In this work, we propose \underline{Med}ical \underline{Un}supervised \underline{A}daptation (\texttt{MedUnA}) of VLMs, where the LLM-generated descriptions for each class are encoded into text embeddings and matched with class labels via a cross-modal adapter. This adapter attaches to a visual encoder of \texttt{MedCLIP} and aligns the visual embeddings through unsupervised learning, driven by a contrastive entropy-based loss and prompt tuning. Thereby, improving performance in scenarios where textual information is more abundant than labeled images, particularly in the healthcare domain. Unlike traditional VLMs, \texttt{MedUnA} uses \textbf{unpaired images and text} for learning representations and enhances the potential of VLMs beyond traditional constraints. We evaluate the performance on three chest X-ray datasets and two multi-class datasets (diabetic retinopathy and skin lesions), showing significant accuracy gains over the zero-shot baseline. Our code is available at https://github.com/rumaima/meduna.
title Can language-guided unsupervised adaptation improve medical image classification using unpaired images and texts?
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02729