One Hyper-Initializer for All Network Architectures in Medical Image Analysis

Autor: Shang, Fangxin, Yang, Yehui, Yang, Dalu, Wu, Junde, Wang, Xiaorong, Xu, Yanwu
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Pre-training is essential to deep learning model performance, especially in medical image analysis tasks where limited training data are available. However, existing pre-training methods are inflexible as the pre-trained weights of one model cannot be reused by other network architectures. In this paper, we propose an architecture-irrelevant hyper-initializer, which can initialize any given network architecture well after being pre-trained for only once. The proposed initializer is a hypernetwork which takes a downstream architecture as input graphs and outputs the initialization parameters of the respective architecture. We show the effectiveness and efficiency of the hyper-initializer through extensive experimental results on multiple medical imaging modalities, especially in data-limited fields. Moreover, we prove that the proposed algorithm can be reused as a favorable plug-and-play initializer for any downstream architecture and task (both classification and segmentation) of the same modality.
Databáze: arXiv