Abstract:Masked image modeling (MIM) is a highly effective self-supervised learning (SSL) approach to extract useful feature representations from unannotated data. Predominantly used random masking methods make SSL less effective for medical images due to the contextual similarity of neighboring patches, leading to information leakage and SSL simplification. Hierarchical shifted window (Swin) transformer, a highly effective approach for medical images cannot use advanced masking methods as it lacks a global [CLS] token. Hence, we introduced an attention guided masking mechanism for Swin within a co-distillation learning framework to selectively mask semantically co-occurring and discriminative patches, to reduce information leakage and increase the difficulty of SSL pretraining. However, attention guided masking inevitably reduces the diversity of attention heads, which negatively impacts downstream task performance. To address this, we for the first time, integrate a noisy teacher into the co-distillation framework (termed DAGMaN) that performs attentive masking while preserving high attention head diversity. We demonstrate the capability of DAGMaN on multiple tasks including full- and few-shot lung nodule classification, immunotherapy outcome prediction, tumor segmentation, and unsupervised organs clustering.
| Comments: | Accepted at MIDL 2025 |
| Subjects: | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2604.14506 [cs.CV] |
| (or arXiv:2604.14506v1 [cs.CV] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.14506 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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