Search Results for author: Christian Wachinger

Found 53 papers, 25 papers with code

Sparse Projections of Medical Images onto Manifolds

no code implementations22 Mar 2013 George H. Chen, Christian Wachinger, Polina Golland

To this end, out-of-sample extensions are applied by constructing an interpolation function that maps from the input space to the low-dimensional manifold.

regression

DeepNAT: Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Segmenting Neuroanatomy

no code implementations27 Feb 2017 Christian Wachinger, Martin Reuter, Tassilo Klein

We introduce DeepNAT, a 3D Deep convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of NeuroAnaTomy in T1-weighted magnetic resonance images.

Brain Segmentation Multi-class Classification +2

A Multi-Armed Bandit to Smartly Select a Training Set from Big Medical Data

no code implementations23 May 2017 Benjamín Gutiérrez, Loïc Peter, Tassilo Klein, Christian Wachinger

With the availability of big medical image data, the selection of an adequate training set is becoming more important to address the heterogeneity of different datasets.

Thompson Sampling

QuickNAT: A Fully Convolutional Network for Quick and Accurate Segmentation of Neuroanatomy

6 code implementations12 Jan 2018 Abhijit Guha Roy, Sailesh Conjeti, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

We introduce QuickNAT, a fully convolutional, densely connected neural network that segments a \revision{MRI brain scan} in 20 seconds.

Brain Segmentation Decision Making +2

Concurrent Spatial and Channel Squeeze & Excitation in Fully Convolutional Networks

10 code implementations7 Mar 2018 Abhijit Guha Roy, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

Fully convolutional neural networks (F-CNNs) have set the state-of-the-art in image segmentation for a plethora of applications.

Brain Segmentation Image Classification +4

Gaussian Process Uncertainty in Age Estimation as a Measure of Brain Abnormality

no code implementations4 Apr 2018 Benjamin Gutierrez Becker, Tassilo Klein, Christian Wachinger

Finally, we illustrate differences in the disease pattern to normal aging, supporting the application of uncertainty as a measure of neuropathology.

Age Estimation regression

Inherent Brain Segmentation Quality Control from Fully ConvNet Monte Carlo Sampling

no code implementations19 Apr 2018 Abhijit Guha Roy, Sailesh Conjeti, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

We introduce inherent measures for effective quality control of brain segmentation based on a Bayesian fully convolutional neural network, using model uncertainty.

Brain Segmentation Segmentation +1

Detect, Quantify, and Incorporate Dataset Bias: A Neuroimaging Analysis on 12,207 Individuals

no code implementations28 Apr 2018 Christian Wachinger, Benjamin Gutierrez Becker, Anna Rieckmann

Next, we introduce metrics to quantify the compatibility across datasets and to create embeddings of neuroimaging sites.

Keypoint Transfer for Fast Whole-Body Segmentation

no code implementations22 Jun 2018 Christian Wachinger, Matthew Toews, Georg Langs, William Wells, Polina Golland

We introduce an approach for image segmentation based on sparse correspondences between keypoints in testing and training images.

Image Segmentation Segmentation +1

Recalibrating Fully Convolutional Networks with Spatial and Channel 'Squeeze & Excitation' Blocks

5 code implementations23 Aug 2018 Abhijit Guha Roy, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

Towards this end, we introduce three variants of SE modules for segmentation, (i) squeezing spatially and exciting channel-wise, (ii) squeezing channel-wise and exciting spatially and (iii) joint spatial and channel 'squeeze & excitation'.

Image Classification Segmentation +1

InfiNet: Fully Convolutional Networks for Infant Brain MRI Segmentation

no code implementations11 Oct 2018 Shubham Kumar, Sailesh Conjeti, Abhijit Guha Roy, Christian Wachinger, Nassir Navab

We present a novel, parameter-efficient and practical fully convolutional neural network architecture, termed InfiNet, aimed at voxel-wise semantic segmentation of infant brain MRI images at iso-intense stage, which can be easily extended for other segmentation tasks involving multi-modalities.

Infant Brain Mri Segmentation MRI segmentation +2

Bayesian QuickNAT: Model Uncertainty in Deep Whole-Brain Segmentation for Structure-wise Quality Control

2 code implementations24 Nov 2018 Abhijit Guha Roy, Sailesh Conjeti, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

Next to voxel-wise uncertainty, we introduce four metrics to quantify structure-wise uncertainty in segmentation for quality control.

Brain Segmentation Segmentation

The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS)

6 code implementations13 Jan 2019 Patrick Bilic, Patrick Christ, Hongwei Bran Li, Eugene Vorontsov, Avi Ben-Cohen, Georgios Kaissis, Adi Szeskin, Colin Jacobs, Gabriel Efrain Humpire Mamani, Gabriel Chartrand, Fabian Lohöfer, Julian Walter Holch, Wieland Sommer, Felix Hofmann, Alexandre Hostettler, Naama Lev-Cohain, Michal Drozdzal, Michal Marianne Amitai, Refael Vivantik, Jacob Sosna, Ivan Ezhov, Anjany Sekuboyina, Fernando Navarro, Florian Kofler, Johannes C. Paetzold, Suprosanna Shit, Xiaobin Hu, Jana Lipková, Markus Rempfler, Marie Piraud, Jan Kirschke, Benedikt Wiestler, Zhiheng Zhang, Christian Hülsemeyer, Marcel Beetz, Florian Ettlinger, Michela Antonelli, Woong Bae, Míriam Bellver, Lei Bi, Hao Chen, Grzegorz Chlebus, Erik B. Dam, Qi Dou, Chi-Wing Fu, Bogdan Georgescu, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto, Felix Gruen, Xu Han, Pheng-Ann Heng, Jürgen Hesser, Jan Hendrik Moltz, Christian Igel, Fabian Isensee, Paul Jäger, Fucang Jia, Krishna Chaitanya Kaluva, Mahendra Khened, Ildoo Kim, Jae-Hun Kim, Sungwoong Kim, Simon Kohl, Tomasz Konopczynski, Avinash Kori, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, Fan Li, Hongchao Li, Junbo Li, Xiaomeng Li, John Lowengrub, Jun Ma, Klaus Maier-Hein, Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis, Hans Meine, Dorit Merhof, Akshay Pai, Mathias Perslev, Jens Petersen, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Jin Qi, Xiaojuan Qi, Oliver Rippel, Karsten Roth, Ignacio Sarasua, Andrea Schenk, Zengming Shen, Jordi Torres, Christian Wachinger, Chunliang Wang, Leon Weninger, Jianrong Wu, Daguang Xu, Xiaoping Yang, Simon Chun-Ho Yu, Yading Yuan, Miao Yu, Liping Zhang, Jorge Cardoso, Spyridon Bakas, Rickmer Braren, Volker Heinemann, Christopher Pal, An Tang, Samuel Kadoury, Luc Soler, Bram van Ginneken, Hayit Greenspan, Leo Joskowicz, Bjoern Menze

In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2017 and the International Conferences on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2017 and 2018.

Benchmarking Computed Tomography (CT) +3

Data Augmentation with Manifold Exploring Geometric Transformations for Increased Performance and Robustness

no code implementations14 Jan 2019 Magdalini Paschali, Walter Simson, Abhijit Guha Roy, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Rüdiger Göbl, Christian Wachinger, Nassir Navab

Compared with traditional augmentation methods, and with images synthesized by Generative Adversarial Networks our method not only achieves state-of-the-art performance but also significantly improves the network's robustness.

Data Augmentation General Classification +2

BrainTorrent: A Peer-to-Peer Environment for Decentralized Federated Learning

no code implementations16 May 2019 Abhijit Guha Roy, Shayan Siddiqui, Sebastian Pölsterl, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

A disadvantage of FL is the dependence on a central server, which requires all clients to agree on one trusted central body, and whose failure would disrupt the training process of all clients.

Brain Segmentation Federated Learning

Adversarial Learned Molecular Graph Inference and Generation

1 code implementation24 May 2019 Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger

Recent methods for generating novel molecules use graph representations of molecules and employ various forms of graph convolutional neural networks for inference.

Drug Discovery

`Project & Excite' Modules for Segmentation of Volumetric Medical Scans

2 code implementations11 Jun 2019 Anne-Marie Rickmann, Abhijit Guha Roy, Ignacio Sarasua, Nassir Navab, Christian Wachinger

Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance for image segmentation in medical imaging.

Brain Segmentation Image Segmentation +2

Quantifying Confounding Bias in Neuroimaging Datasets with Causal Inference

no code implementations9 Jul 2019 Christian Wachinger, Benjamin Gutierrez Becker, Anna Rieckmann, Sebastian Pölsterl

In this work, we combine 12, 207 MRI scans from 15 studies and show that simple pooling is often ill-advised due to introducing various types of biases in the training data.

Causal Inference

Detect and Correct Bias in Multi-Site Neuroimaging Datasets

1 code implementation12 Feb 2020 Christian Wachinger, Anna Rieckmann, Sebastian Pölsterl

Given such evidence, we take a closer look at confounding bias, which is often viewed as the main shortcoming in observational studies.

Recalibrating 3D ConvNets with Project & Excite

1 code implementation25 Feb 2020 Anne-Marie Rickmann, Abhijit Guha Roy, Ignacio Sarasua, Christian Wachinger

Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance for segmentation tasks in computer vision and medical imaging.

Brain Segmentation Segmentation

Importance Driven Continual Learning for Segmentation Across Domains

2 code implementations30 Apr 2020 Sinan Özgür Özgün, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Abhijit Guha Roy, Christian Wachinger

The ability of neural networks to continuously learn and adapt to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge is crucial for many applications.

Brain Segmentation Continual Learning +3

Estimation of Causal Effects in the Presence of Unobserved Confounding in the Alzheimer's Continuum

1 code implementation23 Jun 2020 Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger

We derive a causal graph from the current clinical knowledge on cause and effect in the Alzheimer's disease continuum, and show that identifiability of the causal effect requires all confounders to be known and measured.

Causal Inference Clinical Knowledge

Discriminative and Generative Models for Anatomical Shape Analysison Point Clouds with Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations2 Oct 2020 Benjamin Gutierrez Becker, Ignacio Sarasua, Christian Wachinger

The key insights are that (i) learning a shape representation specific to the given task yields higher performance than alternative shape descriptors, (ii) multi-structure analysis is both more efficient and more accurate than single-structure analysis, and (iii) point clouds generated by our model capture morphological differences associated to Alzheimers disease, to the point that they can be used to train a discriminative model for disease classification.

Semi-Structured Deep Piecewise Exponential Models

no code implementations11 Nov 2020 Philipp Kopper, Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger, Bernd Bischl, Andreas Bender, David Rügamer

We propose a versatile framework for survival analysis that combines advanced concepts from statistics with deep learning.

Survival Analysis

Recalibration of Neural Networks for Point Cloud Analysis

no code implementations25 Nov 2020 Ignacio Sarasua, Sebastian Poelsterl, Christian Wachinger

First, we demonstrate the benefit and versatility of our proposed modules by incorporating them into three state-of-the-art networks for 3D point cloud analysis: PointNet++, DGCNN, and RSCNN.

Geometric Deep Learning on Anatomical Meshes for the Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease

no code implementations20 Apr 2021 Ignacio Sarasua, Jonwong Lee, Christian Wachinger

Geometric deep learning can find representations that are optimal for a given task and therefore improve the performance over pre-defined representations.

Hippocampus

STRUDEL: Self-Training with Uncertainty Dependent Label Refinement across Domains

no code implementations23 Apr 2021 Fabian Gröger, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Christian Wachinger

We propose to predict the uncertainty of pseudo labels and integrate it in the training process with an uncertainty-guided loss function to highlight labels with high certainty.

Pseudo Label Segmentation +1

Scalable, Axiomatic Explanations of Deep Alzheimer's Diagnosis from Heterogeneous Data

1 code implementation13 Jul 2021 Sebastian Pölsterl, Christina Aigner, Christian Wachinger

We propose Shapley Value Explanation of Heterogeneous Neural Networks (SVEHNN) for explaining the Alzheimer's diagnosis made by a DNN from the 3D point cloud of the neuroanatomy and tabular biomarkers.

Decision Making

Combining 3D Image and Tabular Data via the Dynamic Affine Feature Map Transform

2 code implementations13 Jul 2021 Sebastian Pölsterl, Tom Nuno Wolf, Christian Wachinger

Prior work on diagnosing Alzheimer's disease from magnetic resonance images of the brain established that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can leverage the high-dimensional image information for classifying patients.

Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis via Deep Factorization Machine Models

no code implementations12 Aug 2021 Raphael Ronge, Kwangsik Nho, Christian Wachinger, Sebastian Pölsterl

The current state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) for Alzheimer's Disease diagnosis use different biomarker combinations to classify patients, but do not allow extracting knowledge about the interactions of biomarkers.

Vox2Cortex: Fast Explicit Reconstruction of Cortical Surfaces from 3D MRI Scans with Geometric Deep Neural Networks

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Fabian Bongratz, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans is essential for quantitative analyses of cortical thickness and sulcal morphology.

Is a PET all you need? A multi-modal study for Alzheimer's disease using 3D CNNs

no code implementations5 Jul 2022 Marla Narazani, Ignacio Sarasua, Sebastian Pölsterl, Aldana Lizarraga, Igor Yakushev, Christian Wachinger

AD classification and focus on differential diagnosis of dementia, where fusing multi-modal image information conforms with a clinical need.

Clinical Knowledge

CASHformer: Cognition Aware SHape Transformer for Longitudinal Analysis

no code implementations5 Jul 2022 Ignacio Sarasua, Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger

To this end, we introduce CASHformer, a transformer-based framework to model longitudinal shape trajectories in AD.

Hippocampus

Joint Reconstruction and Parcellation of Cortical Surfaces

no code implementations19 Sep 2022 Anne-Marie Rickmann, Fabian Bongratz, Sebastian Pölsterl, Ignacio Sarasua, Christian Wachinger

The reconstruction of cerebral cortex surfaces from brain MRI scans is instrumental for the analysis of brain morphology and the detection of cortical thinning in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD).

3D Reconstruction Graph Classification +1

Don't PANIC: Prototypical Additive Neural Network for Interpretable Classification of Alzheimer's Disease

1 code implementation13 Mar 2023 Tom Nuno Wolf, Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger

We propose PANIC, a prototypical additive neural network for interpretable AD classification that integrates 3D image and tabular data.

HALOS: Hallucination-free Organ Segmentation after Organ Resection Surgery

1 code implementation14 Mar 2023 Anne-Marie Rickmann, Murong Xu, Tom Nuno Wolf, Oksana Kovalenko, Christian Wachinger

The wide range of research in deep learning-based medical image segmentation pushed the boundaries in a multitude of applications.

Anatomy Hallucination +5

Abdominal organ segmentation via deep diffeomorphic mesh deformations

1 code implementation27 Jun 2023 Fabian Bongratz, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Christian Wachinger

However, the generalization of these deep learning-based approaches to different organs and datasets, a crucial property for deployment in clinical environments, has not yet been assessed.

Organ Segmentation Segmentation

MedShapeNet -- A Large-Scale Dataset of 3D Medical Shapes for Computer Vision

1 code implementation30 Aug 2023 Jianning Li, Zongwei Zhou, Jiancheng Yang, Antonio Pepe, Christina Gsaxner, Gijs Luijten, Chongyu Qu, Tiezheng Zhang, Xiaoxi Chen, Wenxuan Li, Marek Wodzinski, Paul Friedrich, Kangxian Xie, Yuan Jin, Narmada Ambigapathy, Enrico Nasca, Naida Solak, Gian Marco Melito, Viet Duc Vu, Afaque R. Memon, Christopher Schlachta, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Rajnikant Patel, Roy Eagleson, Xiaojun Chen, Heinrich Mächler, Jan Stefan Kirschke, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Patrick Ferdinand Christ, Hongwei Bran Li, David G. Ellis, Michele R. Aizenberg, Sergios Gatidis, Thomas Küstner, Nadya Shusharina, Nicholas Heller, Vincent Andrearczyk, Adrien Depeursinge, Mathieu Hatt, Anjany Sekuboyina, Maximilian Löffler, Hans Liebl, Reuben Dorent, Tom Vercauteren, Jonathan Shapey, Aaron Kujawa, Stefan Cornelissen, Patrick Langenhuizen, Achraf Ben-Hamadou, Ahmed Rekik, Sergi Pujades, Edmond Boyer, Federico Bolelli, Costantino Grana, Luca Lumetti, Hamidreza Salehi, Jun Ma, Yao Zhang, Ramtin Gharleghi, Susann Beier, Arcot Sowmya, Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal, Thania Balducci, Diego Angeles-Valdez, Roberto Souza, Leticia Rittner, Richard Frayne, Yuanfeng Ji, Vincenzo Ferrari, Soumick Chatterjee, Florian Dubost, Stefanie Schreiber, Hendrik Mattern, Oliver Speck, Daniel Haehn, Christoph John, Andreas Nürnberger, João Pedrosa, Carlos Ferreira, Guilherme Aresta, António Cunha, Aurélio Campilho, Yannick Suter, Jose Garcia, Alain Lalande, Vicky Vandenbossche, Aline Van Oevelen, Kate Duquesne, Hamza Mekhzoum, Jef Vandemeulebroucke, Emmanuel Audenaert, Claudia Krebs, Timo Van Leeuwen, Evie Vereecke, Hauke Heidemeyer, Rainer Röhrig, Frank Hölzle, Vahid Badeli, Kathrin Krieger, Matthias Gunzer, Jianxu Chen, Timo van Meegdenburg, Amin Dada, Miriam Balzer, Jana Fragemann, Frederic Jonske, Moritz Rempe, Stanislav Malorodov, Fin H. Bahnsen, Constantin Seibold, Alexander Jaus, Zdravko Marinov, Paul F. Jaeger, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Ana Sofia Santos, Mariana Lindo, André Ferreira, Victor Alves, Michael Kamp, Amr Abourayya, Felix Nensa, Fabian Hörst, Alexander Brehmer, Lukas Heine, Yannik Hanusrichter, Martin Weßling, Marcel Dudda, Lars E. Podleska, Matthias A. Fink, Julius Keyl, Konstantinos Tserpes, Moon-Sung Kim, Shireen Elhabian, Hans Lamecker, Dženan Zukić, Beatriz Paniagua, Christian Wachinger, Martin Urschler, Luc Duong, Jakob Wasserthal, Peter F. Hoyer, Oliver Basu, Thomas Maal, Max J. H. Witjes, Gregor Schiele, Ti-chiun Chang, Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi, Ping Luo, Bjoern Menze, Mauricio Reyes, Thomas M. Deserno, Christos Davatzikos, Behrus Puladi, Pascal Fua, Alan L. Yuille, Jens Kleesiek, Jan Egger

For the medical domain, we present a large collection of anatomical shapes (e. g., bones, organs, vessels) and 3D models of surgical instrument, called MedShapeNet, created to facilitate the translation of data-driven vision algorithms to medical applications and to adapt SOTA vision algorithms to medical problems.

Anatomy Mixed Reality

RegBN: Batch Normalization of Multimodal Data with Regularization

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Morteza Ghahremani, Christian Wachinger

The proposed method demonstrates broad applicability across different architectures such as multilayer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, and vision transformers, enabling effective normalization of both low- and high-level features in multimodal neural networks.

Keep the Faith: Faithful Explanations in Convolutional Neural Networks for Case-Based Reasoning

1 code implementation15 Dec 2023 Tom Nuno Wolf, Fabian Bongratz, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Sebastian Pölsterl, Christian Wachinger

During inference, similarities of latent features to prototypes are linearly classified to form predictions and attribution maps are provided to explain the similarity.

Neural deformation fields for template-based reconstruction of cortical surfaces from MRI

1 code implementation23 Jan 2024 Fabian Bongratz, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Christian Wachinger

The reconstruction of cortical surfaces is a prerequisite for quantitative analyses of the cerebral cortex in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

V2C-Long: Longitudinal Cortex Reconstruction with Spatiotemporal Correspondence

no code implementations27 Feb 2024 Fabian Bongratz, Jan Fecht, Anne-Marie Rickmann, Christian Wachinger

In contrast to existing methods, V2C-Long surfaces are directly comparable in a cross-sectional and longitudinal manner.

Surface Reconstruction

Stochastic Cortical Self-Reconstruction

no code implementations11 Mar 2024 Christian Wachinger, Dennis Hedderich, Fabian Bongratz

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases, yet accurately assessing mild cortical atrophy remains a challenge due to its subtlety.

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