Keywords: Diagnosis/Prediction, Aging, Ex-Vivo Applications, Brain, Microbleeds
Motivation: Accurate and efficient detection of cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) on postmortem MRI is necessary for MR-pathology studies on the relationship between CMBs and cerebral small vessel disease (SVD).
Goal(s): The development and improvement of an automated detection framework for identifying cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) on MRI scans of community-based older adults.
Approach: Fuzzy segmentation, a novel self-supervised auxiliary task based on CMB data synthesis, is proposed for pre-training a CMB detection model alongside other state-of-the-art SSL methods.
Results: Self-supervised pre-training with fuzzy segmentation and rotation prediction led to an 11% increase in average precision for automated CMB detection on postmortem MRI.
Impact: This study demonstrates a new state-of-the-art for postmortem CMB detection performance using self-supervised learning. Automated CMB detection on postmortem MRI will enable future MR-pathology studies into the links between CMBs and neuropathology observed at autopsy such as cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
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