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Saliency mapping by feature reduction and perturbation modeling in medical imaging

US11263744B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 9, 2019
Grant dateMar 1, 2022
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Expiry dateMar 10, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2211/421
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

For saliency mapping, a machine-learned classifier is used to classify input data. A perturbation encoder is trained and/or applied for saliency mapping of the machine-learned classifier. The training and/or application (testing) of the perturbation encoder uses less than all feature maps of the machine-learned classifier, such as selecting different feature maps of different hidden layers in a multiscale approach. The subset used is selected based on gradients from back-projection. The training of the perturbation encoder may be unsupervised, such as using an entropy score, or semi-supervised, such as using the entropy score and a difference of a perturbation mask from a ground truth segmentation.

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