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| author | Tlemsani, Adam Li, Yingdian Giot, Maxime Slim, Naim Peters, Christopher J. Ghosh, Abhijeet Elson, Daniel S. |
| author_facet | Tlemsani, Adam Li, Yingdian Giot, Maxime Slim, Naim Peters, Christopher J. Ghosh, Abhijeet Elson, Daniel S. |
| contents | Mueller matrix imaging provides rich, physically meaningful contrast for biomedical tissue analysis, but supervised learning is hindered by scarce dense annotations and strong domain shifts across specimens and acquisition settings. We introduce MuellerPT, a physics guided pre-training approach that learns transferable dense representations by predicting Lu-Chipman decomposition maps from per-pixel 4x4 Mueller matrices. To scale pre-training, we collected a new large Multispectral Animal Polarimetric Organ dataset (MAP-Org). The pre-trained encoder is adapted with a segmentation head for grey vs. white matter segmentation in lamb brain. A classification head is used for colorectal cancer vs. non-cancer classification. Both segmentation and classification are evaluated across few-shot learning scenarios. In segmentation, MuellerPT improves label efficiency and cross specimen transfer compared to models without pre-training, achieving an absolute DICE gain of over 20% compared to the baseline trained from scratch when using 5% of the training data. In classification, MuellerPT also enhances label efficiency, improving overall accuracy by 8% compared to the baseline when using 1% of the training data. We demonstrate MuellerPT's robustness to domain shift with a qualitative evaluation of its predicted Lu-Chipman maps on an ex vivo human oesophagus sample. These results suggest that predicting Lu-Chipman decomposition is an effective and practical pretext task for robust biomedical inference from Mueller polarimetry and can pave the way for future work on label efficient Mueller imaging. |
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| spellingShingle | MuellerPT: Decomposition Driven Pretraining for Dense Learning in Mueller Polarimetry Tlemsani, Adam Li, Yingdian Giot, Maxime Slim, Naim Peters, Christopher J. Ghosh, Abhijeet Elson, Daniel S. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Mueller matrix imaging provides rich, physically meaningful contrast for biomedical tissue analysis, but supervised learning is hindered by scarce dense annotations and strong domain shifts across specimens and acquisition settings. We introduce MuellerPT, a physics guided pre-training approach that learns transferable dense representations by predicting Lu-Chipman decomposition maps from per-pixel 4x4 Mueller matrices. To scale pre-training, we collected a new large Multispectral Animal Polarimetric Organ dataset (MAP-Org). The pre-trained encoder is adapted with a segmentation head for grey vs. white matter segmentation in lamb brain. A classification head is used for colorectal cancer vs. non-cancer classification. Both segmentation and classification are evaluated across few-shot learning scenarios. In segmentation, MuellerPT improves label efficiency and cross specimen transfer compared to models without pre-training, achieving an absolute DICE gain of over 20% compared to the baseline trained from scratch when using 5% of the training data. In classification, MuellerPT also enhances label efficiency, improving overall accuracy by 8% compared to the baseline when using 1% of the training data. We demonstrate MuellerPT's robustness to domain shift with a qualitative evaluation of its predicted Lu-Chipman maps on an ex vivo human oesophagus sample. These results suggest that predicting Lu-Chipman decomposition is an effective and practical pretext task for robust biomedical inference from Mueller polarimetry and can pave the way for future work on label efficient Mueller imaging. |
| title | MuellerPT: Decomposition Driven Pretraining for Dense Learning in Mueller Polarimetry |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23840 |