Time-to-Event Pretraining for 3D Medical Imaging

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Main Authors: Huo, Zepeng, Fries, Jason Alan, Lozano, Alejandro, Valanarasu, Jeya Maria Jose, Steinberg, Ethan, Blankemeier, Louis, Chaudhari, Akshay S., Langlotz, Curtis, Shah, Nigam H.
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author Huo, Zepeng
Fries, Jason Alan
Lozano, Alejandro
Valanarasu, Jeya Maria Jose
Steinberg, Ethan
Blankemeier, Louis
Chaudhari, Akshay S.
Langlotz, Curtis
Shah, Nigam H.
author_facet Huo, Zepeng
Fries, Jason Alan
Lozano, Alejandro
Valanarasu, Jeya Maria Jose
Steinberg, Ethan
Blankemeier, Louis
Chaudhari, Akshay S.
Langlotz, Curtis
Shah, Nigam H.
contents With the rise of medical foundation models and the growing availability of imaging data, scalable pretraining techniques offer a promising way to identify imaging biomarkers predictive of future disease risk. While current self-supervised methods for 3D medical imaging models capture local structural features like organ morphology, they fail to link pixel biomarkers with long-term health outcomes due to a missing context problem. Current approaches lack the temporal context necessary to identify biomarkers correlated with disease progression, as they rely on supervision derived only from images and concurrent text descriptions. To address this, we introduce time-to-event pretraining, a pretraining framework for 3D medical imaging models that leverages large-scale temporal supervision from paired, longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs). Using a dataset of 18,945 CT scans (4.2 million 2D images) and time-to-event distributions across thousands of EHR-derived tasks, our method improves outcome prediction, achieving an average AUROC increase of 23.7% and a 29.4% gain in Harrell's C-index across 8 benchmark tasks. Importantly, these gains are achieved without sacrificing diagnostic classification performance. This study lays the foundation for integrating longitudinal EHR and 3D imaging data to advance clinical risk prediction.
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spellingShingle Time-to-Event Pretraining for 3D Medical Imaging
Huo, Zepeng
Fries, Jason Alan
Lozano, Alejandro
Valanarasu, Jeya Maria Jose
Steinberg, Ethan
Blankemeier, Louis
Chaudhari, Akshay S.
Langlotz, Curtis
Shah, Nigam H.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
With the rise of medical foundation models and the growing availability of imaging data, scalable pretraining techniques offer a promising way to identify imaging biomarkers predictive of future disease risk. While current self-supervised methods for 3D medical imaging models capture local structural features like organ morphology, they fail to link pixel biomarkers with long-term health outcomes due to a missing context problem. Current approaches lack the temporal context necessary to identify biomarkers correlated with disease progression, as they rely on supervision derived only from images and concurrent text descriptions. To address this, we introduce time-to-event pretraining, a pretraining framework for 3D medical imaging models that leverages large-scale temporal supervision from paired, longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs). Using a dataset of 18,945 CT scans (4.2 million 2D images) and time-to-event distributions across thousands of EHR-derived tasks, our method improves outcome prediction, achieving an average AUROC increase of 23.7% and a 29.4% gain in Harrell's C-index across 8 benchmark tasks. Importantly, these gains are achieved without sacrificing diagnostic classification performance. This study lays the foundation for integrating longitudinal EHR and 3D imaging data to advance clinical risk prediction.
title Time-to-Event Pretraining for 3D Medical Imaging
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09361