Recruiting the Best Teacher Modality: A Customized Knowledge Distillation Method for if Based Nephropathy Diagnosis

  • Ning Dai
  • , Lai Jiang*
  • , Yibing Fu
  • , Sai Pan
  • , Mai Xu
  • , Xin Deng
  • , Pu Chen
  • , Xiangmei Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The joint use of multiple imaging modalities for medical image has been widely studied in recent years. The fusion of information from different modalities has demonstrated the performance improvement for some medical tasks. For nephropathy diagnosis, immunofluorescence (IF) is one of the most widely-used medical image due to its ease of acquisition with low cost, which is also an advanced multi-modality technique. However, the existing methods mainly integrate information from diverse sources by averaging or combining them, failing to exploit multi-modality knowledge in details. In this paper, we observe that the 7 modalities of IF images have different impact on different nephropathy categories. Accordingly, we propose a knowledge distillation framework to transfer knowledge from the trained single-modality teacher networks to a multi-modality student network. On top of this, given a input IF sequence, a recruitment module is developed to dynamically assign weights to teacher models and optimize the performance of student model. By applying on several different architectures, the extensive experimental results verify the effectiveness of our method for nephropathy diagnosis.

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
Pages526-536
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031439032
DOIs
StatePublished - 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)
Volume14224 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
Period8/10/2312/10/23

Keywords

  • IF image
  • Knowledge distillation
  • Nephropathy diagnosis

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