Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Contrastive Learning with Tabular and Imaging Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14080v3
• Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:40:35 GMT
• Title: Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Contrastive Learning with Tabular and Imaging Data
• Authors: Paul Hager, Martin J. Menten, Daniel Rueckert
• Abstract summary: We propose the first self-supervised contrastive learning framework to train unimodal encoders. Our solution combines SimCLR and SCARF, two leading contrastive learning strategies. We show the generalizability of our approach to natural images using the DVM car advertisement dataset.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Medical datasets and especially biobanks, often contain extensive tabular data with rich clinical information in addition to images. In practice, clinicians typically have less data, both in terms of diversity and scale, but still wish to deploy deep learning solutions. Combined with increasing medical dataset sizes and expensive annotation costs, the necessity for unsupervised methods that can pretrain multimodally and predict unimodally has risen. To address these needs, we propose the first self-supervised contrastive learning framework that takes advantage of images and tabular data to train unimodal encoders. Our solution combines SimCLR and SCARF, two leading contrastive learning strategies, and is simple and effective. In our experiments, we demonstrate the strength of our framework by predicting risks of myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease (CAD) using cardiac MR images and 120 clinical features from 40,000 UK Biobank subjects. Furthermore, we show the generalizability of our approach to natural images using the DVM car advertisement dataset. We take advantage of the high interpretability of tabular data and through attribution and ablation experiments find that morphometric tabular features, describing size and shape, have outsized importance during the contrastive learning process and improve the quality of the learned embeddings. Finally, we introduce a novel form of supervised contrastive learning, label as a feature (LaaF), by appending the ground truth label as a tabular feature during multimodal pretraining, outperforming all supervised contrastive baselines.

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