Surface Vision Transformers: Flexible Attention-Based Modelling of Biomedical Surfaces

1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2022 • Simon Dahan, Hao Xu, Logan Z. J. Williams, Abdulah Fawaz, Chunhui Yang, Timothy S. Coalson, Michelle C. Williams, David E. Newby, A. David Edwards, Matthew F. Glasser, Alistair A. Young, Daniel Rueckert, Emma C. Robinson

Results suggest that Surface Vision Transformers (SiT) demonstrate consistent improvement over geometric deep learning methods for brain age and fluid intelligence prediction and achieve comparable performance on calcium score classification to standard metrics used in clinical practice.

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Surface Vision Transformers: Attention-Based Modelling applied to Cortical Analysis

1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2022 • Simon Dahan, Abdulah Fawaz, Logan Z. J. Williams, Chunhui Yang, Timothy S. Coalson, Matthew F. Glasser, A. David Edwards, Daniel Rueckert, Emma C. Robinson

Motivated by the success of attention-modelling in computer vision, we translate convolution-free vision transformer approaches to surface data, to introduce a domain-agnostic architecture to study any surface data projected onto a spherical manifold.