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Conditional Invertible Neural Networks for Medical Imaging

Image and Video Processing 2021-10-28 v1

Abstract

Over the last years, deep learning methods have become an increasingly popular choice to solve tasks from the field of inverse problems. Many of these new data-driven methods have produced impressive results, although most only give point estimates for the reconstruction. However, especially in the analysis of ill-posed inverse problems, the study of uncertainties is essential. In our work, we apply generative flow-based models based on invertible neural networks to two challenging medical imaging tasks, i.e. low-dose computed tomography and accelerated medical resonance imaging. We test different architectures of invertible neural networks and provide extensive ablation studies. In most applications, a standard Gaussian is used as the base distribution for a flow-based model. Our results show that the choice of a radial distribution can improve the quality of reconstructions.

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@article{arxiv.2110.14520,
  title  = {Conditional Invertible Neural Networks for Medical Imaging},
  author = {Alexander Denker and Maximilian Schmidt and Johannes Leuschner and Peter Maass},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14520},
  year   = {2021}
}