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Sample-Aware Test-Time Adaptation for Medical Image-to-Image Translation

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  • Haebom

Author

Irene Iele, Francesco Di Feola, Valerio Guarrasi, Paolo Soda

Outline

This paper proposes a novel Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) framework to address the performance degradation associated with out-of-distribution samples in image-to-image transformation of medical images. This framework quantifies the degree of domain shift through a Reconstruction Module and introduces a Dynamic Adaptation Block that dynamically adjusts the internal features of a pre-trained transformation model to adapt to out-of-distribution samples. Adaptation is not applied to in-distribution samples, preventing performance degradation. TTA demonstrates performance improvements over existing methods and baseline models without TTA in two medical image transformation tasks: low-dose CT denoising and T1-to-T2 MRI conversion. We highlight the limitations of existing state-of-the-art methods, which apply adaptation equally to both in- and out-of-distribution samples, and demonstrate that sample-specific dynamic adaptation is a promising approach to enhance model robustness in real-world environments.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present a novel TTA framework that effectively addresses the performance degradation problem for out-of-distribution samples in medical image-to-image conversion.
Overcoming the limitations of existing TTA methods by enabling sample-specific dynamic adaptation through reconstruction modules and dynamic adaptation blocks.
Experimentally verified performance improvement over existing methods in low-dose CT noise removal and T1-T2 MRI conversion tasks.
Suggesting the possibility of contributing to improving the robustness of models in actual medical image analysis.
Limitations:
Further research is needed to evaluate the generalization performance of the proposed method. Scalability to various medical image types and transformation tasks is also needed.
Further optimization studies are needed on the design of the reconfiguration module and dynamic adaptation block.
There is a lack of performance evaluations in other medical image transformation tasks beyond the two currently presented ones.
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