OCL: Ordinal Contrastive Learning for Imputating Features with Progressive Labels

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Hauptverfasser: Baek, Seunghun, Sim, Jaeyoon, Wu, Guorong, Kim, Won Hwa
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author Baek, Seunghun
Sim, Jaeyoon
Wu, Guorong
Kim, Won Hwa
author_facet Baek, Seunghun
Sim, Jaeyoon
Wu, Guorong
Kim, Won Hwa
contents Accurately discriminating progressive stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is crucial for early diagnosis and prevention. It often involves multiple imaging modalities to understand the complex pathology of AD, however, acquiring a complete set of images is challenging due to high cost and burden for subjects. In the end, missing data become inevitable which lead to limited sample-size and decrease in precision in downstream analyses. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a holistic imaging feature imputation method that enables to leverage diverse imaging features while retaining all subjects. The proposed method comprises two networks: 1) An encoder to extract modality-independent embeddings and 2) A decoder to reconstruct the original measures conditioned on their imaging modalities. The encoder includes a novel {\em ordinal contrastive loss}, which aligns samples in the embedding space according to the progression of AD. We also maximize modality-wise coherence of embeddings within each subject, in conjunction with domain adversarial training algorithms, to further enhance alignment between different imaging modalities. The proposed method promotes our holistic imaging feature imputation across various modalities in the shared embedding space. In the experiments, we show that our networks deliver favorable results for statistical analysis and classification against imputation baselines with Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study.
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spellingShingle OCL: Ordinal Contrastive Learning for Imputating Features with Progressive Labels
Baek, Seunghun
Sim, Jaeyoon
Wu, Guorong
Kim, Won Hwa
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Accurately discriminating progressive stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is crucial for early diagnosis and prevention. It often involves multiple imaging modalities to understand the complex pathology of AD, however, acquiring a complete set of images is challenging due to high cost and burden for subjects. In the end, missing data become inevitable which lead to limited sample-size and decrease in precision in downstream analyses. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a holistic imaging feature imputation method that enables to leverage diverse imaging features while retaining all subjects. The proposed method comprises two networks: 1) An encoder to extract modality-independent embeddings and 2) A decoder to reconstruct the original measures conditioned on their imaging modalities. The encoder includes a novel {\em ordinal contrastive loss}, which aligns samples in the embedding space according to the progression of AD. We also maximize modality-wise coherence of embeddings within each subject, in conjunction with domain adversarial training algorithms, to further enhance alignment between different imaging modalities. The proposed method promotes our holistic imaging feature imputation across various modalities in the shared embedding space. In the experiments, we show that our networks deliver favorable results for statistical analysis and classification against imputation baselines with Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study.
title OCL: Ordinal Contrastive Learning for Imputating Features with Progressive Labels
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02899