Deep Multi-instance Volumetric Image Classification with Extreme Value Distributions

Ruwan Tennakoon*, Amirali K. Gostar, Reza Hoseinnezhad, Marleen de-Bruijne, Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

*Corresponding author for this work

    Abstract

    Predicting the presence of a disease in volumetric images is an essential task in medical imaging. The use of state-of-the-art techniques like deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) for such tasks is challenging due to limited supervised training data and high memory usage. This paper presents a weakly supervised solution that can be used in learning deep CNN features for volumetric image classification. In the proposed method, we use extreme value theory to model the feature distribution of the images without a pathology and use it to identify positive instances in an image that contains pathology. The experimental results show that the proposed method can learn classifiers that have similar performance to a fully supervised method and have significantly better performance in comparison with methods that use fixed number of instances from a positive image.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ACCV 2018 : 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Perth, Australia, December 2–6, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
    EditorsHongdong Li, C.V. Jawahar, Greg Mori, Konrad Schindler
    Number of pages15
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date2019
    Pages590-604
    ISBN (Print)9783030208929
    ISBN (Electronic)9783030208936
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2018 - Perth, Australia
    Duration: 2 Dec 20186 Dec 2018

    Conference

    Conference14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2018
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CityPerth
    Period02/12/201806/12/2018
    SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume11363 LNCS
    ISSN0302-9743

    Keywords

    • Intra-retinal fluid
    • Learning (artificial intelligence)
    • Macular Edema
    • Medical image processing
    • Multiple instance learning
    • OCT images
    • Optical coherence tomography
    • Pigment Epithelial Detachment
    • Retinal fluid classification
    • ReTOUCH challenge
    • Sub-retinal fluid
    • Weak supervision

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