{
  "id": 255599,
  "title": "Potentially Useful Literature on Multimodal Deep Learning",
  "url": "/competitions/rsna-miccai-brain-tumor-radiogenomic-classification/discussion/255599",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-07-28T09:40:57.060876200Z",
  "votes": 11,
  "comment_count": 12,
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  "content": "<p>Hi there,</p>\n<p>As we are dealing with 4 modalities in our data, I want to share this review as it might be helpful to start creating architectures of deep learning models [<a href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02166-7]\" target=\"_blank\">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02166-7]</a>. If you have any other useful literature or approaches on how to handle the different modalities, I look forward to reading them in the comments :)</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1402554",
      "postDate": "07/28/2021 09:40:57",
      "content": "<p>Hi there,</p>\n<p>As we are dealing with 4 modalities in our data, I want to share this review as it might be helpful to start creating architectures of deep learning models [<a href=\"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02166-7]\" target=\"_blank\">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02166-7]</a>. If you have any other useful literature or approaches on how to handle the different modalities, I look forward to reading them in the comments :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi there,\n\nAs we are dealing with 4 modalities in our data, I want to share this review as it might be helpful to start creating architectures of deep learning models [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02166-7]. If you have any other useful literature or approaches on how to handle the different modalities, I look forward to reading them in the comments :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1402616",
      "postDate": "07/28/2021 11:09:25",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/fanconic\" target=\"_blank\">@fanconic</a> that's a great resource. Let's hope more to come…</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you @fanconic that's a great resource. Let's hope more to come...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1402742",
      "postDate": "07/28/2021 13:59:46",
      "content": "<p>Thank you so much for sharing. I would just like to request if you come accross any resources which show practical examples of multi-modal transfer learning please do share.<br>\nfor instance, <a href=\"https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/\" target=\"_blank\">https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/</a>, here feature extraction using transfer learning is done for 2D RGB images and in this competetion we have to focus on 3D mutli-modal transfer learning.</p>\n<p>I would just like to mention that, I was thinking on creating nifti format image from dicom images and resize the images in 240<em>240</em>155 dimension and then planning on transfer learning for feature extraction but still could not find out how to do that.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you so much for sharing. I would just like to request if you come accross any resources which show practical examples of multi-modal transfer learning please do share.\nfor instance, https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/, here feature extraction using transfer learning is done for 2D RGB images and in this competetion we have to focus on 3D mutli-modal transfer learning.\n\nI would just like to mention that, I was thinking on creating nifti format image from dicom images and resize the images in 240*240*155 dimension and then planning on transfer learning for feature extraction but still could not find out how to do that.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1402743",
      "postDate": "07/28/2021 14:02:45",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/07/an-introduction-to-biomedical-image-analysis-tensorflow-dltk.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/07/an-introduction-to-biomedical-image-analysis-tensorflow-dltk.html</a> Anaother resource shared by <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/lucamtb\" target=\"_blank\">@lucamtb</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/07/an-introduction-to-biomedical-image-analysis-tensorflow-dltk.html Anaother resource shared by @lucamtb",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1402765",
      "postDate": "07/28/2021 14:15:01",
      "content": "<p>I am currently not familiar with 3D multi-modal transfer learning literature, I will have to search the internet a little more. Otherwise, one should start putting together the pieces available from the resources and give it a shot.</p>\n<p>The second point you mentioned seems sensible to me. Maybe be careful when transforming the NIFTI or DICOM files to images (uint8), as one might loose intensity information, which is a lot larger in MRI scans than the classic 8-bit image</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am currently not familiar with 3D multi-modal transfer learning literature, I will have to search the internet a little more. Otherwise, one should start putting together the pieces available from the resources and give it a shot.\n\nThe second point you mentioned seems sensible to me. Maybe be careful when transforming the NIFTI or DICOM files to images (uint8), as one might loose intensity information, which is a lot larger in MRI scans than the classic 8-bit image",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1403112",
      "postDate": "07/28/2021 19:38:42",
      "content": "<p>Hi <br>\nGreat post by the way. But I'd like to know by 4 modalities are you referring to the 4 types of image scans?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi \nGreat post by the way. But I'd like to know by 4 modalities are you referring to the 4 types of image scans?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1403501",
      "postDate": "07/29/2021 07:08:23",
      "content": "<p>Exactly. Theoretically, as they are all images they could be stacked together. However, I fear that by doing this, we might loose predictive information coming from the four different acquisition methods. I might be wrong though</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Exactly. Theoretically, as they are all images they could be stacked together. However, I fear that by doing this, we might loose predictive information coming from the four different acquisition methods. I might be wrong though",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1404077",
      "postDate": "07/29/2021 14:45:09",
      "content": "<p>Hello, basically I was thinking something similar to the following paper<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37387-9\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37387-9</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello, basically I was thinking something similar to the following paper\nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37387-9",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1404098",
      "postDate": "07/29/2021 15:00:25",
      "content": "<p>This looks very fitting on first sight</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This looks very fitting on first sight",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1404106",
      "postDate": "07/29/2021 15:08:31",
      "content": "<p>But I am still looking for resources where I could get some examples of implementing multi-channel 3D CNN with MRI images.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "But I am still looking for resources where I could get some examples of implementing multi-channel 3D CNN with MRI images.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1404147",
      "postDate": "07/29/2021 15:39:58",
      "content": "<p>Why not try to implement it yourself? I will also give it a shot eventually</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Why not try to implement it yourself? I will also give it a shot eventually",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1404522",
      "postDate": "07/30/2021 01:01:32",
      "content": "<p>I read the article <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/fanconic\" target=\"_blank\">@fanconic</a> and I found it super helpful! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I read the article @fanconic and I found it super helpful!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1406553",
      "postDate": "07/31/2021 23:30:45",
      "content": "<p>I just realized, that maybe it's actually not even necessary to use a multimodal approach. As I have seen, it also makes sense to use the three modalities as channels, as channels are usually processed independently of each other in a convolutional neural network. It could be interesting to try not to have any cross-connection between the channels, at least in the first layers.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I just realized, that maybe it's actually not even necessary to use a multimodal approach. As I have seen, it also makes sense to use the three modalities as channels, as channels are usually processed independently of each other in a convolutional neural network. It could be interesting to try not to have any cross-connection between the channels, at least in the first layers.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1402616,
      "author_name": "tharun2001",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/28/2021 11:09:25",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/fanconic\" target=\"_blank\">@fanconic</a> that's a great resource. Let's hope more to come…</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1402742,
      "author_name": "wfarzana",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/28/2021 13:59:46",
      "content": "<p>Thank you so much for sharing. I would just like to request if you come accross any resources which show practical examples of multi-modal transfer learning please do share.<br>\nfor instance, <a href=\"https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/\" target=\"_blank\">https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/</a>, here feature extraction using transfer learning is done for 2D RGB images and in this competetion we have to focus on 3D mutli-modal transfer learning.</p>\n<p>I would just like to mention that, I was thinking on creating nifti format image from dicom images and resize the images in 240<em>240</em>155 dimension and then planning on transfer learning for feature extraction but still could not find out how to do that.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1402765,
          "author_name": "fanconic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/28/2021 14:15:01",
          "content": "<p>I am currently not familiar with 3D multi-modal transfer learning literature, I will have to search the internet a little more. Otherwise, one should start putting together the pieces available from the resources and give it a shot.</p>\n<p>The second point you mentioned seems sensible to me. Maybe be careful when transforming the NIFTI or DICOM files to images (uint8), as one might loose intensity information, which is a lot larger in MRI scans than the classic 8-bit image</p>",
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    {
      "id": 1402743,
      "author_name": "wfarzana",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/28/2021 14:02:45",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/07/an-introduction-to-biomedical-image-analysis-tensorflow-dltk.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/07/an-introduction-to-biomedical-image-analysis-tensorflow-dltk.html</a> Anaother resource shared by <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/lucamtb\" target=\"_blank\">@lucamtb</a> </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1403112,
      "author_name": "troublem1",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/28/2021 19:38:42",
      "content": "<p>Hi <br>\nGreat post by the way. But I'd like to know by 4 modalities are you referring to the 4 types of image scans?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1403501,
          "author_name": "fanconic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/29/2021 07:08:23",
          "content": "<p>Exactly. Theoretically, as they are all images they could be stacked together. However, I fear that by doing this, we might loose predictive information coming from the four different acquisition methods. I might be wrong though</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1404077,
          "author_name": "wfarzana",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/29/2021 14:45:09",
          "content": "<p>Hello, basically I was thinking something similar to the following paper<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37387-9\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37387-9</a></p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1404098,
          "author_name": "fanconic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/29/2021 15:00:25",
          "content": "<p>This looks very fitting on first sight</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1404106,
          "author_name": "wfarzana",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/29/2021 15:08:31",
          "content": "<p>But I am still looking for resources where I could get some examples of implementing multi-channel 3D CNN with MRI images.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1404147,
          "author_name": "fanconic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/29/2021 15:39:58",
          "content": "<p>Why not try to implement it yourself? I will also give it a shot eventually</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1404522,
      "author_name": "jolasa",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/30/2021 01:01:32",
      "content": "<p>I read the article <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/fanconic\" target=\"_blank\">@fanconic</a> and I found it super helpful! </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1406553,
          "author_name": "fanconic",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "07/31/2021 23:30:45",
          "content": "<p>I just realized, that maybe it's actually not even necessary to use a multimodal approach. As I have seen, it also makes sense to use the three modalities as channels, as channels are usually processed independently of each other in a convolutional neural network. It could be interesting to try not to have any cross-connection between the channels, at least in the first layers.</p>",
          "votes": null,
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    "1402554": "Hi there,\n\nAs we are dealing with 4 modalities in our data, I want to share this review as it might be helpful to start creating architectures of deep learning models [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-021-02166-7]. If you have any other useful literature or approaches on how to handle the different modalities, I look forward to reading them in the comments :)",
    "1402616": "Thank you @fanconic that's a great resource. Let's hope more to come...",
    "1402742": "Thank you so much for sharing. I would just like to request if you come accross any resources which show practical examples of multi-modal transfer learning please do share.\nfor instance, https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/, here feature extraction using transfer learning is done for 2D RGB images and in this competetion we have to focus on 3D mutli-modal transfer learning.\n\nI would just like to mention that, I was thinking on creating nifti format image from dicom images and resize the images in 240*240*155 dimension and then planning on transfer learning for feature extraction but still could not find out how to do that.",
    "1402743": "https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/07/an-introduction-to-biomedical-image-analysis-tensorflow-dltk.html Anaother resource shared by @lucamtb",
    "1402765": "I am currently not familiar with 3D multi-modal transfer learning literature, I will have to search the internet a little more. Otherwise, one should start putting together the pieces available from the resources and give it a shot.\n\nThe second point you mentioned seems sensible to me. Maybe be careful when transforming the NIFTI or DICOM files to images (uint8), as one might loose intensity information, which is a lot larger in MRI scans than the classic 8-bit image",
    "1403112": "Hi \nGreat post by the way. But I'd like to know by 4 modalities are you referring to the 4 types of image scans?",
    "1403501": "Exactly. Theoretically, as they are all images they could be stacked together. However, I fear that by doing this, we might loose predictive information coming from the four different acquisition methods. I might be wrong though",
    "1404077": "Hello, basically I was thinking something similar to the following paper\nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37387-9",
    "1404098": "This looks very fitting on first sight",
    "1404106": "But I am still looking for resources where I could get some examples of implementing multi-channel 3D CNN with MRI images.",
    "1404147": "Why not try to implement it yourself? I will also give it a shot eventually",
    "1404522": "I read the article @fanconic and I found it super helpful!",
    "1406553": "I just realized, that maybe it's actually not even necessary to use a multimodal approach. As I have seen, it also makes sense to use the three modalities as channels, as channels are usually processed independently of each other in a convolutional neural network. It could be interesting to try not to have any cross-connection between the channels, at least in the first layers."
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