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Main Authors: Jiang, Hanqi, Hao, Xixuan, Huang, Yuzhou, Ma, Chong, Zhang, Jiaxun, Pan, Yi, Zhang, Ruimao
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00448
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author Jiang, Hanqi
Hao, Xixuan
Huang, Yuzhou
Ma, Chong
Zhang, Jiaxun
Pan, Yi
Zhang, Ruimao
author_facet Jiang, Hanqi
Hao, Xixuan
Huang, Yuzhou
Ma, Chong
Zhang, Jiaxun
Pan, Yi
Zhang, Ruimao
contents This paper introduces an innovative approach to Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (Med-VLP) area in the specialized context of radiograph representation learning. While conventional methods frequently merge textual annotations into unified reports, we acknowledge the intrinsic hierarchical relationship between the findings and impression section in radiograph datasets. To establish a targeted correspondence between images and texts, we propose a novel HybridMED framework to align global-level visual representations with impression and token-level visual representations with findings. Moreover, our framework incorporates a generation decoder that employs two proxy tasks, responsible for generating the impression from (1) images, via a captioning branch, and (2) findings, through a summarization branch. Additionally, knowledge distillation is leveraged to facilitate the training process. Experiments on the MIMIC-CXR dataset reveal that our summarization branch effectively distills knowledge to the captioning branch, enhancing model performance without significantly increasing parameter requirements due to the shared self-attention and feed-forward architecture.
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spellingShingle Advancing Medical Radiograph Representation Learning: A Hybrid Pre-training Paradigm with Multilevel Semantic Granularity
Jiang, Hanqi
Hao, Xixuan
Huang, Yuzhou
Ma, Chong
Zhang, Jiaxun
Pan, Yi
Zhang, Ruimao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper introduces an innovative approach to Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (Med-VLP) area in the specialized context of radiograph representation learning. While conventional methods frequently merge textual annotations into unified reports, we acknowledge the intrinsic hierarchical relationship between the findings and impression section in radiograph datasets. To establish a targeted correspondence between images and texts, we propose a novel HybridMED framework to align global-level visual representations with impression and token-level visual representations with findings. Moreover, our framework incorporates a generation decoder that employs two proxy tasks, responsible for generating the impression from (1) images, via a captioning branch, and (2) findings, through a summarization branch. Additionally, knowledge distillation is leveraged to facilitate the training process. Experiments on the MIMIC-CXR dataset reveal that our summarization branch effectively distills knowledge to the captioning branch, enhancing model performance without significantly increasing parameter requirements due to the shared self-attention and feed-forward architecture.
title Advancing Medical Radiograph Representation Learning: A Hybrid Pre-training Paradigm with Multilevel Semantic Granularity
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00448