A Clinical-oriented Multi-level Contrastive Learning Method for Disease Diagnosis in Low-quality Medical Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04887v1
• Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 09:08:14 GMT
• Title: A Clinical-oriented Multi-level Contrastive Learning Method for Disease Diagnosis in Low-quality Medical Images
• Authors: Qingshan Hou, Shuai Cheng, Peng Cao, Jinzhu Yang, Xiaoli Liu, Osmar R. Zaiane, Yih Chung Tham,
• Abstract summary: Disease diagnosis methods guided by contrastive learning (CL) have shown significant advantages in lesion feature representation. We propose a clinical-oriented multi-level CL framework that aims to enhance the model's capacity to extract lesion features. The proposed CL framework is validated on two public medical image datasets, EyeQ and Chest X-ray.
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• Abstract: Representation learning offers a conduit to elucidate distinctive features within the latent space and interpret the deep models. However, the randomness of lesion distribution and the complexity of low-quality factors in medical images pose great challenges for models to extract key lesion features. Disease diagnosis methods guided by contrastive learning (CL) have shown significant advantages in lesion feature representation. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of CL is highly dependent on the quality of the positive and negative sample pairs. In this work, we propose a clinical-oriented multi-level CL framework that aims to enhance the model's capacity to extract lesion features and discriminate between lesion and low-quality factors, thereby enabling more accurate disease diagnosis from low-quality medical images. Specifically, we first construct multi-level positive and negative pairs to enhance the model's comprehensive recognition capability of lesion features by integrating information from different levels and qualities of medical images. Moreover, to improve the quality of the learned lesion embeddings, we introduce a dynamic hard sample mining method based on self-paced learning. The proposed CL framework is validated on two public medical image datasets, EyeQ and Chest X-ray, demonstrating superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art disease diagnostic methods.

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