Gaussian Process Emulators for Few-Shot Segmentation in Cardiac MRI

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Main Authors: Viti, Bruno, Thaler, Franz, Kapper, Kathrin Lisa, Urschler, Martin, Holler, Martin, Karabelas, Elias
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Published: 2024
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author Viti, Bruno
Thaler, Franz
Kapper, Kathrin Lisa
Urschler, Martin
Holler, Martin
Karabelas, Elias
author_facet Viti, Bruno
Thaler, Franz
Kapper, Kathrin Lisa
Urschler, Martin
Holler, Martin
Karabelas, Elias
contents Segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRI) is crucial for the analysis and assessment of cardiac function, helping to diagnose and treat various cardiovascular diseases. Most recent techniques rely on deep learning and usually require an extensive amount of labeled data. To overcome this problem, few-shot learning has the capability of reducing data dependency on labeled data. In this work, we introduce a new method that merges few-shot learning with a U-Net architecture and Gaussian Process Emulators (GPEs), enhancing data integration from a support set for improved performance. GPEs are trained to learn the relation between the support images and the corresponding masks in latent space, facilitating the segmentation of unseen query images given only a small labeled support set at inference. We test our model with the M&Ms-2 public dataset to assess its ability to segment the heart in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging from different orientations, and compare it with state-of-the-art unsupervised and few-shot methods. Our architecture shows higher DICE coefficients compared to these methods, especially in the more challenging setups where the size of the support set is considerably small.
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spellingShingle Gaussian Process Emulators for Few-Shot Segmentation in Cardiac MRI
Viti, Bruno
Thaler, Franz
Kapper, Kathrin Lisa
Urschler, Martin
Holler, Martin
Karabelas, Elias
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRI) is crucial for the analysis and assessment of cardiac function, helping to diagnose and treat various cardiovascular diseases. Most recent techniques rely on deep learning and usually require an extensive amount of labeled data. To overcome this problem, few-shot learning has the capability of reducing data dependency on labeled data. In this work, we introduce a new method that merges few-shot learning with a U-Net architecture and Gaussian Process Emulators (GPEs), enhancing data integration from a support set for improved performance. GPEs are trained to learn the relation between the support images and the corresponding masks in latent space, facilitating the segmentation of unseen query images given only a small labeled support set at inference. We test our model with the M&Ms-2 public dataset to assess its ability to segment the heart in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging from different orientations, and compare it with state-of-the-art unsupervised and few-shot methods. Our architecture shows higher DICE coefficients compared to these methods, especially in the more challenging setups where the size of the support set is considerably small.
title Gaussian Process Emulators for Few-Shot Segmentation in Cardiac MRI
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06911