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Multi-Modal Learning Using Physicians Diagnostics for Optical Coherence Tomography Classification
Authors: Y. Logan, K. Kokilepersaud, G. Kwon, G. AlRegib, C. Wykoff, H. Yu
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Attribute, BIG-bench Machine Learning, Classification, Diagnostic

In this paper, we propose a framework that incorporates experts diagnostics and insights into the analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) using multi-modal learning. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, we create a medical diagnostic attribute dataset to improve disease classification using OCT. Although there have been successful attempts to deploy machine learning for disease classification in OCT, such methodologies lack the experts insights. We argue that injecting ophthalmological assessments as another supervision in a learning framework is of great importance for the machine learning process to perform accurate and interpretable classification. We demonstrate the proposed framework through comprehensive experiments that compare the effectiveness of combining diagnostic attribute features with latent visual representations and show that they surpass the state-of-the-art approach. Finally, we analyze the proposed dual-stream architecture and provide an insight that determine the components that contribute most to classification performance.
PediCXR: An open, large-scale chest radiograph dataset for interpretation of common thoracic diseases in children
Authors: Hieu H. Pham, Ngoc H. Nguyen, Thanh T. Tran, Tuan N. M. Nguyen, Ha Q. Nguyen
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Diagnostic

The development of diagnostic models for detecting and diagnosing pediatric diseases in CXR scans is undertaken due to the lack of high-quality physician-annotated datasets. To overcome this challenge, we introduce and release PediCXR, a new pediatric CXR dataset of 9,125 studies retrospectively collected from a major pediatric hospital in Vietnam between 2020 and 2021. Each scan was manually annotated by a pediatric radiologist with more than ten years of experience. The dataset was labeled for the presence of 36 critical findings and 15 diseases. In particular, each abnormal finding was identified via a rectangle bounding box on the image. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first and largest pediatric CXR dataset containing lesion-level annotations and image-level labels for the detection of multiple findings and diseases. For algorithm development, the dataset was divided into a training set of 7,728 and a test set of 1,397. To encourage new advances in pediatric CXR interpretation using data-driven approaches, we provide a detailed description of the PediCXR data sample and make the dataset publicly available on https://physionet.org/content/pedicxr/1.0.0/
Learning from Multiple Expert Annotators for Enhancing Anomaly Detection in Medical Image Analysis
Authors: Khiem H. Le, Tuan V. Tran, Hieu H. Pham, Hieu T. Nguyen, Tung T. Le, Ha Q. Nguyen
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Anomaly Detection, Medical Image Analysis

Building an accurate computer-aided diagnosis system based on data-driven approaches requires a large amount of high-quality labeled data. In medical imaging analysis, multiple expert annotators often produce subjective estimates about "ground truth labels" during the annotation process, depending on their expertise and experience. As a result, the labeled data may contain a variety of human biases with a high rate of disagreement among annotators, which significantly affect the performance of supervised machine learning algorithms. To tackle this challenge, we propose a simple yet effective approach to combine annotations from multiple radiology experts for training a deep learning-based detector that aims to detect abnormalities on medical scans. The proposed method first estimates the ground truth annotations and confidence scores of training examples. The estimated annotations and their scores are then used to train a deep learning detector with a re-weighted loss function to localize abnormal findings. We conduct an extensive experimental evaluation of the proposed approach on both simulated and real-world medical imaging datasets. The experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms baseline approaches that do not consider the disagreements among annotators, including methods in which all of the noisy annotations are treated equally as ground truth and the ensemble of different models trained on different label sets provided separately by annotators.
A Novel Transparency Strategy-based Data Augmentation Approach for BI-RADS Classification of Mammograms
Authors: Sam B. Tran, Huyen T. X. Nguyen, Chi Phan, Hieu H. Pham, Ha Q. Nguyen
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Classification, Data Augmentation, Image Augmentation

Image augmentation techniques have been widely investigated to improve the performance of deep learning (DL) algorithms on mammography classification tasks. Recent methods have proved the efficiency of image augmentation on data deficiency or data imbalance issues. In this paper, we propose a novel transparency strategy to boost the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) scores of mammogram classifiers. The proposed approach utilizes the Region of Interest (ROI) information to generate more high-risk training examples for breast cancer (BI-RADS 3, 4, 5) from original images. Our extensive experiments on three different datasets show that the proposed approach significantly improves the mammogram classification performance and surpasses a state-of-the-art data augmentation technique called CutMix. This study also highlights that our transparency method is more effective than other augmentation strategies for BI-RADS classification and can be widely applied to other computer vision tasks.
Towards Clinical Practice: Design and Implementation of Convolutional Neural Network-Based Assistive Diagnosis System for COVID-19 Case Detection from Chest X-Ray Images
Authors: Daniel Kvak, Marian Bendik, Anna Chromcova
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00

One of the critical tools for early detection and subsequent evaluation of the incidence of lung diseases is chest radiography. This study presents a real-world implementation of a convolutional neural network (CNN) based Carebot Covid app to detect COVID-19 from chest X-ray (CXR) images. Our proposed model takes the form of a simple and intuitive application. Used CNN can be deployed as a STOW-RS prediction endpoint for direct implementation into DICOM viewers. The results of this study show that the deep learning model based on DenseNet and ResNet architecture can detect SARS-CoV-2 from CXR images with precision of 0.981, recall of 0.962 and AP of 0.993.
Open-Vocabulary One-Stage Detection with Hierarchical Visual-Language Knowledge Distillation
Authors: Zongyang Ma, Guan Luo, Jin Gao, Liang Li, Yuxin Chen, Shaoru Wang, Congxuan Zhang, Weiming Hu
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2022 1
Tasks: Knowledge Distillation, Language Modelling, Object, object-detection, Object Detection, Open-vocabulary object detection, Open Vocabulary Object Detection

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to detect novel object categories beyond the training set. The advanced open-vocabulary two-stage detectors employ instance-level visual-to-visual knowledge distillation to align the visual space of the detector with the semantic space of the Pre-trained Visual-Language Model (PVLM). However, in the more efficient one-stage detector, the absence of class-agnostic object proposals hinders the knowledge distillation on unseen objects, leading to severe performance degradation. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical visual-language knowledge distillation method, i.e., HierKD, for open-vocabulary one-stage detection. Specifically, a global-level knowledge distillation is explored to transfer the knowledge of unseen categories from the PVLM to the detector. Moreover, we combine the proposed global-level knowledge distillation and the common instance-level knowledge distillation to learn the knowledge of seen and unseen categories simultaneously. Extensive experiments on MS-COCO show that our method significantly surpasses the previous best one-stage detector with 11.9\% and 6.7\% $AP_{50}$ gains under the zero-shot detection and generalized zero-shot detection settings, and reduces the $AP_{50}$ performance gap from 14\% to 7.3\% compared to the best two-stage detector.
Point3D: tracking actions as moving points with 3D CNNs
Authors: Shentong Mo, Jingfei Xia, Xiaoqing Tan, Bhiksha Raj
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Action Classification, Action Localization, Action Recognition, Spatio-temporal Action Recognition

Spatio-temporal action recognition has been a challenging task that involves detecting where and when actions occur. Current state-of-the-art action detectors are mostly anchor-based, requiring sensitive anchor designs and huge computations due to calculating large numbers of anchor boxes. Motivated by nascent anchor-free approaches, we propose Point3D, a flexible and computationally efficient network with high precision for spatio-temporal action recognition. Our Point3D consists of a Point Head for action localization and a 3D Head for action classification. Firstly, Point Head is used to track center points and knot key points of humans to localize the bounding box of an action. These location features are then piped into a time-wise attention to learn long-range dependencies across frames. The 3D Head is later deployed for the final action classification. Our Point3D achieves state-of-the-art performance on the JHMDB, UCF101-24, and AVA benchmarks in terms of frame-mAP and video-mAP. Comprehensive ablation studies also demonstrate the effectiveness of each module proposed in our Point3D.
Self-supervised Point Cloud Completion on Real Traffic Scenes via Scene-concerned Bottom-up Mechanism
Authors: Yiming Ren, Peishan Cong, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Point Cloud Completion

Real scans always miss partial geometries of objects due to the self-occlusions, external-occlusions, and limited sensor resolutions. Point cloud completion aims to refer the complete shapes for incomplete 3D scans of objects. Current deep learning-based approaches rely on large-scale complete shapes in the training process, which are usually obtained from synthetic datasets. It is not applicable for real-world scans due to the domain gap. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised point cloud completion method (TraPCC) for vehicles in real traffic scenes without any complete data. Based on the symmetry and similarity of vehicles, we make use of consecutive point cloud frames to construct vehicle memory bank as reference. We design a bottom-up mechanism to focus on both local geometry details and global shape features of inputs. In addition, we design a scene-graph in the network to pay attention to the missing parts by the aid of neighboring vehicles. Experiments show that TraPCC achieve good performance for real-scan completion on KITTI and nuScenes traffic datasets even without any complete data in training. We also show a downstream application of 3D detection, which benefits from our completion approach.
CRISPnet: Color Rendition ISP Net
Authors: Matheus Souza, Wolfgang Heidrich
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Demosaicking, Denoising, image-classification, Image Classification

Image signal processors (ISPs) are historically grown legacy software systems for reconstructing color images from noisy raw sensor measurements. They are usually composited of many heuristic blocks for denoising, demosaicking, and color restoration. Color reproduction in this context is of particular importance, since the raw colors are often severely distorted, and each smart phone manufacturer has developed their own characteristic heuristics for improving the color rendition, for example of skin tones and other visually important colors. In recent years there has been strong interest in replacing the historically grown ISP systems with deep learned pipelines. Much progress has been made in approximating legacy ISPs with such learned models. However, so far the focus of these efforts has been on reproducing the structural features of the images, with less attention paid to color rendition. Here we present CRISPnet, the first learned ISP model to specifically target color rendition accuracy relative to a complex, legacy smart phone ISP. We achieve this by utilizing both image metadata (like a legacy ISP would), as well as by learning simple global semantics based on image classification -- similar to what a legacy ISP does to determine the scene type. We also contribute a new ISP image dataset consisting of both high dynamic range monitor data, as well as real-world data, both captured with an actual cell phone ISP pipeline under a variety of lighting conditions, exposure times, and gain settings.
3D Human Pose Estimation Using Möbius Graph Convolutional Networks
Authors: Niloofar Azizi, Horst Possegger, Emanuele Rodolà, Horst Bischof
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: 3D Human Pose Estimation, Pose Estimation

3D human pose estimation is fundamental to understanding human behavior. Recently, promising results have been achieved by graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which achieve state-of-the-art performance and provide rather light-weight architectures. However, a major limitation of GCNs is their inability to encode all the transformations between joints explicitly. To address this issue, we propose a novel spectral GCN using the M\"obius transformation (M\"obiusGCN). In particular, this allows us to directly and explicitly encode the transformation between joints, resulting in a significantly more compact representation. Compared to even the lightest architectures so far, our novel approach requires 90-98% fewer parameters, i.e. our lightest M\"obiusGCN uses only 0.042M trainable parameters. Besides the drastic parameter reduction, explicitly encoding the transformation of joints also enables us to achieve state-of-the-art results. We evaluate our approach on the two challenging pose estimation benchmarks, Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP, demonstrating both state-of-the-art results and the generalization capabilities of M\"obiusGCN.
Towards 3D Scene Understanding by Referring Synthetic Models
Authors: Runnan Chen, Xinge Zhu, Nenglun Chen, Dawei Wang, Wei Li, Yuexin Ma, Ruigang Yang, Wenping Wang
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Scene Understanding, Transfer Learning

Promising performance has been achieved for visual perception on the point cloud. However, the current methods typically rely on labour-extensive annotations on the scene scans. In this paper, we explore how synthetic models alleviate the real scene annotation burden, i.e., taking the labelled 3D synthetic models as reference for supervision, the neural network aims to recognize specific categories of objects on a real scene scan (without scene annotation for supervision). The problem studies how to transfer knowledge from synthetic 3D models to real 3D scenes and is named Referring Transfer Learning (RTL). The main challenge is solving the model-to-scene (from a single model to the scene) and synthetic-to-real (from synthetic model to real scene's object) gap between the synthetic model and the real scene. To this end, we propose a simple yet effective framework to perform two alignment operations. First, physical data alignment aims to make the synthetic models cover the diversity of the scene's objects with data processing techniques. Then a novel \textbf{convex-hull regularized feature alignment} introduces learnable prototypes to project the point features of both synthetic models and real scenes to a unified feature space, which alleviates the domain gap. These operations ease the model-to-scene and synthetic-to-real difficulty for a network to recognize the target objects on a real unseen scene. Experiments show that our method achieves the average mAP of 46.08\% and 55.49\% on the ScanNet and S3DIS datasets by learning the synthetic models from the ModelNet dataset. Code will be publicly available.
Document Dewarping with Control Points
Authors: Guo-Wang Xie, Fei Yin, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng-Lin Liu
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Document images are now widely captured by handheld devices such as mobile phones. The OCR performance on these images are largely affected due to geometric distortion of the document paper, diverse camera positions and complex backgrounds. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach to rectify distorted document image by estimating control points and reference points. After that, we use interpolation method between control points and reference points to convert sparse mappings to backward mapping, and remap the original distorted document image to the rectified image. Furthermore, control points are controllable to facilitate interaction or subsequent adjustment. We can flexibly select post-processing methods and the number of vertices according to different application scenarios. Experiments show that our approach can rectify document images with various distortion types, and yield state-of-the-art performance on real-world dataset. This paper also provides a training dataset based on control points for document dewarping. Both the code and the dataset are released at https://github.com/gwxie/Document-Dewarping-with-Control-Points.
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Nighttime Aerial Tracking
Authors: Junjie Ye, Changhong Fu, Guangze Zheng, Danda Pani Paudel, Guang Chen
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2022 1
Tasks: Domain Adaptation, Object Discovery, Object Tracking, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Previous advances in object tracking mostly reported on favorable illumination circumstances while neglecting performance at nighttime, which significantly impeded the development of related aerial robot applications. This work instead develops a novel unsupervised domain adaptation framework for nighttime aerial tracking (named UDAT). Specifically, a unique object discovery approach is provided to generate training patches from raw nighttime tracking videos. To tackle the domain discrepancy, we employ a Transformer-based bridging layer post to the feature extractor to align image features from both domains. With a Transformer day/night feature discriminator, the daytime tracking model is adversarially trained to track at night. Moreover, we construct a pioneering benchmark namely NAT2021 for unsupervised domain adaptive nighttime tracking, which comprises a test set of 180 manually annotated tracking sequences and a train set of over 276k unlabelled nighttime tracking frames. Exhaustive experiments demonstrate the robustness and domain adaptability of the proposed framework in nighttime aerial tracking. The code and benchmark are available at https://github.com/vision4robotics/UDAT.
Iwin: Human-Object Interaction Detection via Transformer with Irregular Windows
Authors: Danyang Tu, Xiongkuo Min, Huiyu Duan, Guodong Guo, Guangtao Zhai, Wei Shen
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Human-Object Interaction Detection, Object, object-detection, Object Detection, Representation Learning, Scene Understanding

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, named Iwin Transformer, which is specifically designed for human-object interaction (HOI) detection, a detailed scene understanding task involving a sequential process of human/object detection and interaction recognition. Iwin Transformer is a hierarchical Transformer which progressively performs token representation learning and token agglomeration within irregular windows. The irregular windows, achieved by augmenting regular grid locations with learned offsets, 1) eliminate redundancy in token representation learning, which leads to efficient human/object detection, and 2) enable the agglomerated tokens to align with humans/objects with different shapes, which facilitates the acquisition of highly-abstracted visual semantics for interaction recognition. The effectiveness and efficiency of Iwin Transformer are verified on the two standard HOI detection benchmark datasets, HICO-DET and V-COCO. Results show our method outperforms existing Transformers-based methods by large margins (3.7 mAP gain on HICO-DET and 2.0 mAP gain on V-COCO) with fewer training epochs ($0.5 \times$).
Stochastic Video Prediction with Structure and Motion
Authors: Adil Kaan Akan, Sadra Safadoust, Fatma Güney
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Future prediction, Prediction, Video Prediction

While stochastic video prediction models enable future prediction under uncertainty, they mostly fail to model the complex dynamics of real-world scenes. For example, they cannot provide reliable predictions for scenes with a moving camera and independently moving foreground objects in driving scenarios. The existing methods fail to fully capture the dynamics of the structured world by only focusing on changes in pixels. In this paper, we assume that there is an underlying process creating observations in a video and propose to factorize it into static and dynamic components. We model the static part based on the scene structure and the ego-motion of the vehicle, and the dynamic part based on the remaining motion of the dynamic objects. By learning separate distributions of changes in foreground and background, we can decompose the scene into static and dynamic parts and separately model the change in each. Our experiments demonstrate that disentangling structure and motion helps stochastic video prediction, leading to better future predictions in complex driving scenarios on two real-world driving datasets, KITTI and Cityscapes.
Learning Whole Heart Mesh Generation From Patient Images For Computational Simulations
Authors: Fanwei Kong, Shawn Shadden
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Time Series, Time Series Analysis

Patient-specific cardiac modeling combines geometries of the heart derived from medical images and biophysical simulations to predict various aspects of cardiac function. However, generating simulation-suitable models of the heart from patient image data often requires complicated procedures and significant human effort. We present a fast and automated deep-learning method to construct simulation-suitable models of the heart from medical images. The approach constructs meshes from 3D patient images by learning to deform a small set of deformation handles on a whole heart template. For both 3D CT and MR data, this method achieves promising accuracy for whole heart reconstruction, consistently outperforming prior methods in constructing simulation-suitable meshes of the heart. When evaluated on time-series CT data, this method produced more anatomically and temporally consistent geometries than prior methods, and was able to produce geometries that better satisfy modeling requirements for cardiac flow simulations. Our source code and pretrained networks are available at https://github.com/fkong7/HeartDeformNets.
Soft-CP: A Credible and Effective Data Augmentation for Semantic Segmentation of Medical Lesions
Authors: Pingping Dai, Licong Dong, Ruihan Zhang, Haiming Zhu, Jie Wu, Kehong Yuan
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Data Augmentation, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation

The medical datasets are usually faced with the problem of scarcity and data imbalance. Moreover, annotating large datasets for semantic segmentation of medical lesions is domain-knowledge and time-consuming. In this paper, we propose a new object-blend method(short in soft-CP) that combines the Copy-Paste augmentation method for semantic segmentation of medical lesions offline, ensuring the correct edge information around the lession to solve the issue above-mentioned. We proved the method's validity with several datasets in different imaging modalities. In our experiments on the KiTS19[2] dataset, Soft-CP outperforms existing medical lesions synthesis approaches. The Soft-CP augementation provides gains of +26.5% DSC in the low data regime(10% of data) and +10.2% DSC in the high data regime(all of data), In offline training data, the ratio of real images to synthetic images is 3:1.