POPAR: Patch Order Prediction and Appearance Recovery for Self-supervised Medical Image Analysis

Jiaxuan Pang, Fatemeh Haghighi, Dong Ao Ma, Nahid Ul Islam, Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher, Michael B. Gotway, Jianming Liang

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Abstract

Vision transformer-based self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have recently shown substantial success in learning visual representations from unannotated photographic images. However, their acceptance in medical imaging is still lukewarm, due to the significant discrepancy between medical and photographic images. Consequently, we propose POPAR (patch order prediction and appearance recovery), a novel vision transformer-based self-supervised learning framework for chest X-ray images. POPAR leverages the benefits of vision transformers and unique properties of medical imaging, aiming to simultaneously learn patch-wise high-level contextual features by correcting shuffled patch orders and fine-grained features by recovering patch appearance. We transfer POPAR pretrained models to diverse downstream tasks. The experiment results suggest that (1) POPAR outperforms state-of-the-art (SoTA) self-supervised models with vision transformer backbone; (2) POPAR achieves significantly better performance over all three SoTA contrastive learning methods; and (3) POPAR also outperforms fully-supervised pretrained models across architectures. In addition, our ablation study suggests that to achieve better performance on medical imaging tasks, both fine-grained and global contextual features are preferred. All code and models are available at GitHub.com/JLiangLab/POPAR.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationDomain Adaptation and Representation Transfer - 4th MICCAI Workshop, DART 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Proceedings
EditorsKonstantinos Kamnitsas, Lisa Koch, Mobarakol Islam, Ziyue Xu, Jorge Cardoso, Qi Dou, Nicola Rieke, Sotirios Tsaftaris
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages77-87
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031168512
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event4th MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, DART 2022, held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Sep 22 2022Sep 22 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13542 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, DART 2022, held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period9/22/229/22/22

Keywords

  • Medical image analysis
  • Self-supervised learning
  • Transfer learning
  • Vision transformer

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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