Research

My research aims at learning feature representations for medical image diagnosis facing common medical imaging data challenges. Namely limited data, class-imbalance, noisy annotations and data privacy for collaborative learning between different hospitals.

I have explored the role of architectural design in dealing with spatial information for several classification tasks. Also, I have investigated easing the optimization of the deep network parameters by gradually increasing the difficulty of the training samples. This gradual increase is based on the concept of curriculum learning and achieved with a data scheduler that controls the order and pace of the samples.

Lately, I have shifted to investigate meta-data-aware methods to avoid learning biases or shortcuts, as well as, research fairness metrics for patient subgroups, such as age, sex or ethnicity. We are organizing a webinar series: Datasets through the L👀king-Glass to better understand what are researchers doing with their (meta-) data.

Projects

Below there is a summary of the of research projects I have been working on:

Students

Bianca Ida Pedersen & Max Andreas de Visser (ITU) - Analyzing shortcuts in DL malignancy classification model using 3D data from chest CT Scans (Master Thesis)

Patrick Wittendorff Abarzua Neira, Silas Roien Arildsen, Bertram Kosmo Hviid & Tobias Skovbæk Brund (ITU) - Machine Learning for Sign Language Recognition (Bachelor Thesis)

Paula Victoria Menshikoff & Katarina Kraljevic (ITU) - Diffusion-based Shortcut Removal in Chest X-ray Datasets (Bachelor Thesis)

Casper Anton Poulsen (ITU) - Multi-Task Learning for Pathology and Tube Detection (Research Project)

Cathrine Damgaard & Trine Naja Eriksen (ITU) - Annotation Label Reliability, Drain and Pathology Detection in Publicly Available Chest X-ray Datasets (Research Project + Master Thesis)

Olalla Aramburu (UPF) - Enhancing Surgeon Action Detection in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (Bachelor Thesis)

Joan Medina (UPF) - Predicting Intracranial Pressure with Recurrent and Domain Adaptation Neural Networks (Bachelor Thesis)

Aswathi (EC Nantes) - COVID-19 Detection with a Scheduled Convolutional Neural Network (Research Project)

Eloi Francisco (UPF) - Training Deep Neural Networks on Noisy Labels with Bootstrapping (Research Project)

Simran Anand (UPF) - Identifying Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images (Bachelor Thesis)

Domingo de Abreu (UPF) - Musculoskeletal Abnormality Detection on X-ray Using Transfer Learning (Master Thesis)

Kami Artik (UPF) - Distilling Knowledge in Convolutional Neural Networks to Detect the Abnormalities in Radiographs (Master Thesis)