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  "id": 266895,
  "title": "Paper on Augmentation Techniques for MRI Scans of the Brain",
  "url": "/competitions/rsna-miccai-brain-tumor-radiogenomic-classification/discussion/266895",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-08-20T20:04:30.778626300Z",
  "votes": 17,
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  "content": "<p>Found this interesting and insightful paper on the advantages/disadvantages for different augmentation techniques on MRI data for brain-tumor segmentation.</p>\n<p>I want to put it here in case others may find it useful, and thank you to the authors of the paper for their work.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2019.00083/full\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the paper</a></p>",
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      "id": "1483726",
      "postDate": "08/20/2021 20:04:30",
      "content": "<p>Found this interesting and insightful paper on the advantages/disadvantages for different augmentation techniques on MRI data for brain-tumor segmentation.</p>\n<p>I want to put it here in case others may find it useful, and thank you to the authors of the paper for their work.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2019.00083/full\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the paper</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Found this interesting and insightful paper on the advantages/disadvantages for different augmentation techniques on MRI data for brain-tumor segmentation.\n\nI want to put it here in case others may find it useful, and thank you to the authors of the paper for their work.\n\n[Click here for the paper](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2019.00083/full)",
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    {
      "id": "1483734",
      "postDate": "08/20/2021 20:16:27",
      "content": "<p>Thank <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/dinodeep\" target=\"_blank\">@dinodeep</a> for sharing this useful paper.</p>\n<p>As all participants probably feel, this competition has very little training, public, and private data, and a large shake is expected to occur. Therefore, I think there is no doubt that data augmentation is one of the most important keys to build a robust model. The model can be roughly divided into 2D or 3D approaches. I would also like to share the following paper that examines what is effective augmentation in 3D CNNs using the BraTS 2020 dataset.</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>What is the best data augmentation for 3D brain tumor segmentation?<br>\n  26 Oct 2020<br>\n  Marco Domenico Cirillo, David Abramian, Anders Eklund<br>\n  <a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13372v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13372v2.pdf</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This paper is about segmentation for brain tumors, but 3D CNN representations such as used in segmentation should also be effective for MGMT classification in this competition, so I think it is worth trying the augmentation that is effective for 3D segmentation in our classification task.</p>\n<p>The standard 3D U-Net was the winner at BraTS 2020, and this paper uses it to examine several augmentations and concludes that <code>brightness, elastic deformation, scaling, flipping, and 90-deg rotation are effective in this order</code>.<br>\nOne point to note is that this paper has very little preprocessing. I think it is quite possible that careful preprocessing (e.g. intensity normalization, axis alignment, …) could change the order of magnitude of the effects of these augmentations.</p>\n<p>GitHub 👇<br>\n<a href=\"https://github.com/mdciri/3D-augmentation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\">https://github.com/mdciri/3D-augmentation-techniques</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://f.easyuploader.app/20210821051434_56624470.jpg\" alt=\"result_table\"></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank @dinodeep for sharing this useful paper.\n\nAs all participants probably feel, this competition has very little training, public, and private data, and a large shake is expected to occur. Therefore, I think there is no doubt that data augmentation is one of the most important keys to build a robust model. The model can be roughly divided into 2D or 3D approaches. I would also like to share the following paper that examines what is effective augmentation in 3D CNNs using the BraTS 2020 dataset.\n\n\n> What is the best data augmentation for 3D brain tumor segmentation?\n26 Oct 2020\nMarco Domenico Cirillo, David Abramian, Anders Eklund\nhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13372v2.pdf\n\n\nThis paper is about segmentation for brain tumors, but 3D CNN representations such as used in segmentation should also be effective for MGMT classification in this competition, so I think it is worth trying the augmentation that is effective for 3D segmentation in our classification task.\n\nThe standard 3D U-Net was the winner at BraTS 2020, and this paper uses it to examine several augmentations and concludes that `brightness, elastic deformation, scaling, flipping, and 90-deg rotation are effective in this order`.\nOne point to note is that this paper has very little preprocessing. I think it is quite possible that careful preprocessing (e.g. intensity normalization, axis alignment, ...) could change the order of magnitude of the effects of these augmentations.\n\nGitHub 👇\nhttps://github.com/mdciri/3D-augmentation-techniques\n\n![result_table](https://f.easyuploader.app/20210821051434_56624470.jpg)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1483767",
      "postDate": "08/20/2021 20:54:23",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for sharing this as well. Upvoting. ⬆️</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for sharing this as well. Upvoting. ⬆️",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1483844",
      "postDate": "08/20/2021 23:19:19",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/maxwell110\" target=\"_blank\">@maxwell110</a> for sharing this! Your informative response gives me a better idea at how to post about my findings in a discussion post. Thanks again!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you @maxwell110 for sharing this! Your informative response gives me a better idea at how to post about my findings in a discussion post. Thanks again!",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1483734,
      "author_name": "maxwell110",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/20/2021 20:16:27",
      "content": "<p>Thank <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/dinodeep\" target=\"_blank\">@dinodeep</a> for sharing this useful paper.</p>\n<p>As all participants probably feel, this competition has very little training, public, and private data, and a large shake is expected to occur. Therefore, I think there is no doubt that data augmentation is one of the most important keys to build a robust model. The model can be roughly divided into 2D or 3D approaches. I would also like to share the following paper that examines what is effective augmentation in 3D CNNs using the BraTS 2020 dataset.</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>What is the best data augmentation for 3D brain tumor segmentation?<br>\n  26 Oct 2020<br>\n  Marco Domenico Cirillo, David Abramian, Anders Eklund<br>\n  <a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13372v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13372v2.pdf</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This paper is about segmentation for brain tumors, but 3D CNN representations such as used in segmentation should also be effective for MGMT classification in this competition, so I think it is worth trying the augmentation that is effective for 3D segmentation in our classification task.</p>\n<p>The standard 3D U-Net was the winner at BraTS 2020, and this paper uses it to examine several augmentations and concludes that <code>brightness, elastic deformation, scaling, flipping, and 90-deg rotation are effective in this order</code>.<br>\nOne point to note is that this paper has very little preprocessing. I think it is quite possible that careful preprocessing (e.g. intensity normalization, axis alignment, …) could change the order of magnitude of the effects of these augmentations.</p>\n<p>GitHub 👇<br>\n<a href=\"https://github.com/mdciri/3D-augmentation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\">https://github.com/mdciri/3D-augmentation-techniques</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://f.easyuploader.app/20210821051434_56624470.jpg\" alt=\"result_table\"></p>",
      "votes": null,
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        {
          "id": 1483767,
          "author_name": "rishirajacharya",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/20/2021 20:54:23",
          "content": "<p>Thank you for sharing this as well. Upvoting. ⬆️</p>",
          "votes": null,
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        },
        {
          "id": 1483844,
          "author_name": "dinodeep",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/20/2021 23:19:19",
          "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/maxwell110\" target=\"_blank\">@maxwell110</a> for sharing this! Your informative response gives me a better idea at how to post about my findings in a discussion post. Thanks again!</p>",
          "votes": null,
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    "1483726": "Found this interesting and insightful paper on the advantages/disadvantages for different augmentation techniques on MRI data for brain-tumor segmentation.\n\nI want to put it here in case others may find it useful, and thank you to the authors of the paper for their work.\n\n[Click here for the paper](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2019.00083/full)",
    "1483734": "Thank @dinodeep for sharing this useful paper.\n\nAs all participants probably feel, this competition has very little training, public, and private data, and a large shake is expected to occur. Therefore, I think there is no doubt that data augmentation is one of the most important keys to build a robust model. The model can be roughly divided into 2D or 3D approaches. I would also like to share the following paper that examines what is effective augmentation in 3D CNNs using the BraTS 2020 dataset.\n\n\n> What is the best data augmentation for 3D brain tumor segmentation?\n26 Oct 2020\nMarco Domenico Cirillo, David Abramian, Anders Eklund\nhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13372v2.pdf\n\n\nThis paper is about segmentation for brain tumors, but 3D CNN representations such as used in segmentation should also be effective for MGMT classification in this competition, so I think it is worth trying the augmentation that is effective for 3D segmentation in our classification task.\n\nThe standard 3D U-Net was the winner at BraTS 2020, and this paper uses it to examine several augmentations and concludes that `brightness, elastic deformation, scaling, flipping, and 90-deg rotation are effective in this order`.\nOne point to note is that this paper has very little preprocessing. I think it is quite possible that careful preprocessing (e.g. intensity normalization, axis alignment, ...) could change the order of magnitude of the effects of these augmentations.\n\nGitHub 👇\nhttps://github.com/mdciri/3D-augmentation-techniques\n\n![result_table](https://f.easyuploader.app/20210821051434_56624470.jpg)",
    "1483767": "Thank you for sharing this as well. Upvoting. ⬆️",
    "1483844": "Thank you @maxwell110 for sharing this! Your informative response gives me a better idea at how to post about my findings in a discussion post. Thanks again!"
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