Geometry-Invariant Abnormality Detection

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Abstract

Cancer is a highly heterogeneous condition best visualised in positron emission tomography. Due to this heterogeneity, a general-purpose cancer detection model can be built using unsupervised learning anomaly detection models. While prior work in this field has showcased the efficacy of abnormality detection methods (e.g. Transformer-based), these have shown significant vulnerabilities to differences in data geometry. Changes in image resolution or observed field of view can result in inaccurate predictions, even with significant data pre-processing and augmentation. We propose a new spatial conditioning mechanism that enables models to adapt and learn from varying data geometries, and apply it to a state-of-the-art Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder + Transformer abnormality detection model. We showcase that this spatial conditioning mechanism statistically-significantly improves model performance on whole-body data compared to the same model without conditioning, while allowing the model to perform inference at varying data geometries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023 - 26th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsHayit Greenspan, Hayit Greenspan, Anant Madabhushi, Parvin Mousavi, Septimiu Salcudean, James Duncan, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Russell Taylor
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages300-309
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031439063
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 8 Oct 202312 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14220 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period8/10/202312/10/2023

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