Beyond Supervised Learning for Biomedical Imaging

Speaker(s): 

Mert Sabuncu

Coffee and pastries will be served prior to the talk at 4pm in the Packard second floor kitchen.

Abstract:  Today, many biomedical imaging tasks, such as 3D reconstruction, denoising, detection, registration, and segmentation, are solved with machine learning techniques. In this talk, I will present a flexible learning-based framework that has allowed us to derive efficient solutions for a variety of such problems, without relying on heavy supervision. I will primarily employ image registration as a concrete application and present the details of VoxelMorph, our unsupervised learning-based image registration tool. I will show empirical results obtained by co-registering thousands of brain MRI scans where VoxelMorph has yielded state-of-the-art accuracy with runtimes that are orders of magnitude faster than conventional tools. Finally, I will present some recent results where we used VoxelMorph to learn conditional deformable templates that can reveal population variation as a function of factors of interest, such as aging or genetics. Our code is freely available at https://github.com/voxelmorph/voxelmorph.