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Multi-label classification (MLC) problems are becoming increasingly popular in the context of medical imaging. This has in part been driven by the fact that acquiring annotations for MLC is far less burdensome than for semantic segmentation and yet provides more expressiveness than multi-class classification. However, to train MLCs, most methods have resorted to similar objective functions as with traditional multi-class classification settings. We show in this work that such approaches are not optimal and instead propose a novel deep MLC classification method in affine subspace. At its core, the method attempts to pull features of class-labels towards different affine subspaces while maximizing the distance between them. We evaluate the method using two MLC medical imaging datasets and show a large performance increase compared to previous multi-label frameworks. This method can be seen as a plug-in replacement loss function and is trainable in an end-to-end fashion.
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This work received partial financial support from the Innosuisse Grant #6362.1 PFLS-LS.
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Kurmann, T., Márquez-Neila, P., Wolf, S., Sznitman, R. (2019). Deep Multi-label Classification in Affine Subspaces. In: Shen, D., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019. MICCAI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32239-7_19
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